Anger no substitute for missing fear factor

“Some of the biggest names in football… they were sitting on the bench, looking for direction. I thought, ‘Jesus Christ. What do I do here?’ And then I thought I’d just better do what got me there in the first place. They seemed to think it was okay, what I did, after a while.”

That’s Moyesy all right, in an Observer interview, talking about his first day in an Everton changing room. By the time he did the interview, in April 2003, the players were listening and Moyes had turned relegation battlers into European hopefuls.