This week's international break gives Evertonians some blessed relief from the travails of recent times.
 
Rather than worry about where the next win is coming from, supporters have instead been able to reinforce their allegiance by purchasing the new third kit, which went on sale on Tuesday.
 
They'd have no problem picking it out in the shop.
 
'Neon yellow' is the official description of a kit so luminous it must surely give David Moyes' side the advantage of potentially dazzling opponents into submission.
 
It's the latest in a long line of alternate kits for the Blues. Some have been well received. Some have been met with incredulity. And some have been salmon.
 
At least today's designers have retreated from the mid-90s excess of seemingly trying to get every colour under the sun into away kits and goalkeeper shirts, with the subsequent return to good old-fashioned simplicity most welcomed.
 
That's not to say that absolutely everything from the past should be revived.
 
Earlier this week, while perusing some discovered old VHS tapes (for readers under the age of 18, imagine a more successful Betamax), I chanced upon an episode of that American crime staple, Magnum PI, which Wikipedia tells us was once the highest-rated television show in the United States.
 
Needless to say, it hasn't aged well. There was Tom Selleck resplendent in his Neil Pointon moustache, chatting merrily at the table with his oh-so-stereotypical English butler (points for guessing his name).
 
But it was when Mr Selleck decided to rise from his chair that caused yours truly to almost choke on his cuppa. For he was wearing quite possibly the smallest shorts in the history of mankind.
 
Not quite the private investigating the scriptwriters had in mind, you'd have thought.
 
Cue bone-shuddering childhood memories of footballers running around England's green fields wearing shorts that gave a new meaning to the term 'clever ball control'.
 
Never mind the gaudy away kits, it's those things that were truly offensive.
 
Having said that, the last time Everton were ruling the roost, such attire was en vogue.
 
Hmm. So maybe that's it, then. Bring back the short shorts and a return to the top of the league will surely follow.
 
Possibly.
 
Oh, by the way, give yourself five points if you guessed Magnum's butler was called Higgins. No points, however, if you used Wikipedia to find that out. That's cheating.