If you have erased that game from your memory forgive me, but it was the one when both Mikel Arteta and Anichebe were injured and ruled out for a year each.

Anichebe would probably like to have erased the memory of Kevin Nolan’s atrocious tackle which nearly snapped his leg in two, and probably would have but for his particularly muscular build.

Of course in the meantime James Vaughan continued to suffer his sadly consistent string of set-backs but at least he played at times – Anichebe was just trying to recover from a career threatening set-back.

Those early days of promise when he was employed in such effective fashion on the right flank by Moyes in Uefa cup games must have seemed a long time ago to him.

Yet remarkably it is Anichebe now threatening to break once again into the first team, while Vaughan is trying to get games at Leicester City.

Anichebe’s thunder-bolt left footed strike against Birmingham last Saturday hinted at an extra dimension to his game that could yet see him have a major impact in royal blue.

At the same time Vaughan was coming on as a substitute to try and boost the Foxes’ promotion push.

It will be fascinating to witness the finale of the pairs story.

It may be a long-shot, but the happiest of endings would be to see a home-grown pair partnering each other in an Everton strike force that would have it all - pace, presence, aerial ability, youth and goals aplenty.

Both are due a bit of luck, perhaps with some they could write their own happy ending.