PHIL JAGIELKA has rightly become an established England international and likely future Everton captain over the last 12 months.
The 30-year-old has every chance of becoming as respected a figure at Goodison as Dave Watson or Derek Mountfield.
But with Everton’s back-line falling deeper and deeper in the closing stages of recent games, and suffering the damaging consequences, David Moyes needs his influential defensive linchpin to stand-up as a leader more than ever.
Jagielka must become a snarling sergeant major of the back four and drag his team-mates into shape while there is still time.
