Sixty five today Irons boss Manel Pellegrini made something very clear in his after match interview that he really didn’t care about being a birthday boy.
He said: “I was not worried about my birthday today – I just wanted to win the game – it was the best gift my players could give me.
“I think that we continued playing the same way we have done, but the best thing we did here, we went for the game from the first minute, we didn’t wait for Everton to go.
“I have a lot of years here, I wasn’t going to change for three or four results. We believe in what we are doing and we are not going to change.
I said last time after we lost I will accept advice but I was not going to change what we are doing.”