Cash crisis club Everton could do with some charity - but West Ham took it too far.

The Merseysiders were gift-wrapped the points they needed to ensure Premiership safety.

West Ham were just awful, and Everton took full advantage to storm to their biggest win of the season.

Kevin Campbell, the on-loan super hero now at Goodison Park, grabbed a hat-trick to make his tally nine in seven games for the club as Everton cruised to a comprehensive victory in their last home game of a traumatic season.

It will be a pleasure for Everton fans not to have to endure a nerve-racking last day of the season battle to stay in the top flight.

They can go to Southampton next weekend without a care in the world. Off the pitch, it's a bit different for Everton's power brokers as they struggle with a £20million overdraft and a collapsing takeover bid.

But for now, the fans can celebrate after seeing their team dismantle a West Ham side who looked in need of a stewards' enquiry after this shocking display. No doubt their keen punter of a boss Harry Redknapp will oblige.

Everton had expected West Ham, still chasing a place in the InterToto Cup, to at least put up a fight.

But what a sell-out Goodison Park crowd got instead were opponents who looked like they already had on their holiday flip-flops.

Everton needed one point to ensure their Premiership safety, and the spoils were handed over by a side who still looked in shock after the shambles of the previous week when they'd had three players sent off.

One of those, Ian Wright - playing his last game of the season along with Steve Lomas and Shaka Hislop because of suspensions after that red card nightmare - at least showed some fight.

Clearly angered by what was going on around him, he found himself booked for a foul on Craig Short and then lost his cool completely a few minutes later by volleying a touchline water bottle some 20 yards down the pitch.

West Ham started well, fizzing passes around and making Everton work for their possession. But once the first goal went in after 14 minutes, the Hammers might as well have gone to sit on the coach.

That opening goal came from Campbell, who received his Carling player-of-the-month award before the game.

He has almost single-handedly scored the goals to save Everton from the drop and he rapped in another in a six-yard box scramble.

The chaos was created by a Dave Unsworth point-blank volley that Hislop somehow saved, but when Unsworth headed back the rebound, Campbell was able to force the ball home.

Ten minutes later it was two. Steve Lomas was judged to have pushed over Scott Gemmill in the box. It looked a harsh decision, and he angrily rounded on the Everton man clearly accusing him of diving.

Lomas was dragged away by colleagues, and Michael Ball drilled home the spot-kick.

Then came Wright's booking and bottle-kicking outburst, the veteran striker incensed by lack of effort all around him.

The problem for West Ham was compounded in the 38th minute when Don Hutchison, who received player-of-the-year awards before the game, smashed home the third.

The former Hammer had helped create the opening, and when Francis Jeffers mishit his shot, Hutchison was running in to blast the ball past Hislop.

Suddenly, it wasn't a contest anymore. Everton put together a lengthy passing move all over the park as West Ham trailed embarrassingly around in their wake, and this from a team that for months couldn't score goals and were barely able to string together a handful of passes.

Hammers boss Harry Redknapp had been in Coventry the night before watching the club's brilliant youth team take a 3-0 lead in the first leg of the FA Youth Cup Final.

Maybe he should have brought the kids with him and played them at Goodison instead, because they would surely have put on a better show than their seniors.

It didn't get any better for the Hammers in the second half, and they were soon four down.

Hutchison and Gemmill exchanged passes through a non-existent Hammers midfield, and the move ended with Hutchison's pass that put Campbell in to chip over the exposed Hislop.

Lomas had been pushed into midfield by now from his central defensive role to give some backbone to a spineless West Ham side, but there was no way back for the Londoners.

Wright departed with sarcastic thumbs up to all sides as Everton fans jeered him off, Marc Keller taking over.

Campbell completed his hat-trick after 76 minutes when he raced into the box onto another Hutchison pass to crack the ball home off the inside of a post.

Francis Jeffers grabbed the sixth with three minutes to go, flicking the ball home at the near post.

From then on it was party time, and 40,000 celebrated as their team did a lap of honour. How many of these players will still be at the club next season is open to doubt, but for the time being, Everton basked in the glory of a remarkable day.

Teams:

Everton: Myhre, Weir, Watson, Short, Unsworth, Ball, Hutchison, Dacourt, Gemmill, Campbell, Jeffers.

Subs Not Used: Simonsen, Barmby, Bakayoko, Ward, Degn.

Goals: Campbell 14, Ball 25 pen, Hutchison 38, Campbell 52, 77,Jeffers 87.

West Ham: Hislop, Sinclair, Ferdinand, Ruddock, Foe, Minto, Lampard, Berkovic, Lomas, Di Canio, Wright (Keller 60).

Subs Not Used: Forrest, Coyne, Mean, Alexander.

Booked: Ferdinand, Wright, Foe, Sinclair.

Att: 40,049

Ref: A Wilkie (Chester Le Street).