An insight into what drives Moyes

FOR the first time in years, David Moyes dropped his guard and revealed some of his cards on Saturday evening.

With most of his media duties done, the Everton manager, who had just witnessed a 2-0 victory for his side over Bolton Wanderers courtesy of goals from Mikel Arteta and Steven Pienaar, stood relaxed at the top of the stairs at the back of Everton’s press box and spoke eloquently about his eight years in charge at Goodison Park.

That anniversary came and went last week in the same understated manner as the others since Moyes arrived to try and undo a decade’s worth of mismanagement and underachievement at a club that was one of the biggest in the country in the mid-1980s.