MAKING a flying visit to Liverpool last week to promote her forthcoming pantomime stint at the Empire, Pamela Anderson was asked where her football allegiance will lie during her time in the city.

“I have a hat from one team and a scarf from the other, but I am not a Red or a Blue, not yet,” responded television's most famed slow-motion subject. “We will just have to see who is cuter!”

And on the early evidence thus far, this season is looking pretty unattractive for David Moyes and his Everton players.

Defeat at Blackburn Rovers on the opening day did much to dampen the enthusiasm among supporters that had been engendered by the impressive second half to the previous campaign and an encouraging pre-season.

But it was Saturday's disappointing draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers that prompted sections of the frustrated home crowd to break out in jeers at the final whistle.

Not the way to begin a new Goodison campaign. And most certainly not the way to disprove the widespread belief that Everton are notoriously slow out of the blocks.

There have, of course, been mitigating circumstances in the past, most notably 12 months ago when the problem of a litany of serious injuries was further complicated by the hangover from the Joleon Lescott saga.