Unproductive to undroppable: Aaron Lennon's Merseyside renaissance at Everton

It's October 2014: Tottenham are hosting Newcastle at White Hart Lane. Aaron Lennon looks up and surveys the situation in front of him. Harry Kane and Roberto Soldado wait in the box. Cristian Eriksen loiters on the edge, and Nacer Chadli makes for the far post. 

Lennon, brought off the substitutes' bench in place of Erik Lamela with 12 minutes remaining, is in a good position with the ball on the right.

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Greg Lea

Greg Lea is a freelance football journalist who's filled in wherever FourFourTwo needs him since 2014. He became a Crystal Palace fan after watching a 1-0 loss to Port Vale in 1998, and once got on the scoresheet in a primary school game against Wilfried Zaha's Whitehorse Manor (an own goal in an 8-0 defeat).