“David has taken this club by the scruff of the neck and given Evertonians a reason to believe again,” he says. “I was asked the other week ‘how does he fit with Kendall and Catterick?’ But it was a different time then, it was a different playing field. There wasn’t this kind of pressure or money.

“But what he has done is a miracle. He has taken the club and he has transformed it. It’s not always been easy for him.

“I can remember when certain players have played for us and they’ve been out injured for a few weeks and people were saying ‘how are we going to cope?’

“Now the only person I get worried about getting injured is David Moyes because if I can see him on the side of the pitch when I sit down then everything is okay.

“I’ve thought that from the very second he came. Everything is a bit better in the world because he’s there.”

Everton’s family extends to their former players, for whom Kenwright helped put on a special coach for the semi-final.

“What is extraordinary about his club is that I got a lovely letter from Wayne Clarke saying how important it was,” he says.

“The first three texts I got after the semi-final were from AJ (Andy Johnson), Cars (Lee Carsley) and Beatts (James Beattie). That’s extraordinary. They were just saying ‘we were there with you’.”

But does Kenwright view tomorrow’s Cup final as part of the reward for what he himself has done for the club over the years?

“No,” he replies. “I just think it’s fantastic, not a reward. I was captain of the 3rd XI and I loved my football but I was never any good. So for me to be at Wembley, I won’t be the chairman sitting there. I’ll just be a fan.”