Benitez was the tin hat for me.
Not only had he insulted us as a club and as fans, but not only did we appoint him, but gave him a mandate to rip the club to pieces from the inside out and get rid of anyone he didn`t like - ie our most creative...
Clocking up 72 points in the PL, which nearly always was good enough for top 4, and finishing 5th.
That same season we beat Arsenal 3-0 at home which put us a point behind them I think with a game in hand, only to lose the game in hand at home...
Winning the league title by 13 points but being banned from European competition for several years due to our abhorrent neighbours. As soon as ban lifted, going from Champions to frequent relegation fodder in a short number of years.
The way the club adopted Bradley Lowry as one of our own.
The fans absolutely refusing to let the club be relegated when everybody else had thrown the towel in.
Not everything that’s ‘Everton that’ has to be negative. Admittedly most is like.
Having one of the players of a generation come through our youth ranks, the then chairman saying he wouldn't be sold even for 50 million, only to sell him for 20 million.
Finally landing a billionaire owner who wanted to spunk his dough up the wall and finding out he was the only billionaire on the planet who couldn’t even tie his own shoe laces!
Waiting two decades to join the multibillionaire-as-an-owner party only to need several miracles to avoid relegation and end up financially crippled for years afterwards.