We lose every week…

Everton 4 West Ham 0

A freezing Wednesday night on Merseyside with Big Sam newly-appointed as Everton boss — what could possibly go wrong? Well, turning up for the first half might have helped. There's a bad feeling once the news comes out that Andy Carroll has injured his knee in training. Everton take the lead when Calvert-Lewin gets goalside of the defence and Hart rushes out to mistime his challenge and bring him down for a penalty. The hapless Hart saves Rooney's penalty only for the ball to squirm straight back on to Rooney's head. The second is a good move by the Toffees, but Rooney is allowed to run from deep by Kouyate and get into the box to stroke home. Oh, and it's very nice of Match of the Day to include shots of Big Sam smirking in the Goodison stand. 

West Ham have their only decent spell at the start of the second half as Sakho replaces Obiang. Lanzini has a long-range effort well saved by Pickford, Manuel then finds Cresswell in the box who thumps a rising shot on to the bar. The Hammers seem to have a way back when the ref awards a penalty for a foul on Sakho. But Lanzini's effort is a good height for Pickford who saves amid huge cheers from the Scousers. An unlucky spell, but you can't wait until the second half to start playing.

The Irons then fall apart as Hart unnecessarily races from his box to slice a clearance out to Wayne Rooney by the centre circle. Wayne promptly scores the second goal of his career from his own half against West Ham. It gets worse when Reid goes off injured and Rice's first action is to allow Williams to get ahead of him to power home a header from a corner.

The only positive is that as Christmas approaches we have resurrected the career of Wayne Rooney and improved the spirits of both David Unsworth and Sam Allardyce with our festive gifts. It's too early to blame Moyes entirely as he can only work with what he's inherited, but he was surely too cautious in only playing Ayew up front against a team that had just conceded five and four goals and had injuries at the back. No-one's place should be safe after this. A chance for Adrian would be a start. This was an embarrassing defeat and for the first time this season makes me think that we really are going down.