Wonder how long they will give him.....
A lot longer I hope !
Moyes let the side down with cowardly approach By Roy Collins (Filed: 25-09-2005)
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The opening day of the season brought the unedifying sight of Middlesbrough players using the dying seconds of their game against Liverpool to perform a morris dance around the corner flag in order to preserve a goalless draw. At home. Ten days later, we feared an outbreak of black rest in the Black Country when West Brom turned up at Chelsea with a coach load of nonentities, only for us to be informed that the club were saving any half-decent players for a game they might have a chance of at least drawing.
Dreadful as these examples are, in terms of showing contempt for the paying punter - remember him? - these come a distant second and third to the appalling attitude of Everton at Highbury last Monday when, finding themselves 2-0 down to Arsenal after 30 minutes, they opted not to fight tooth and nail for a draw but simply to defend to keep the score down. This with a full hour to go.
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It's the most heinous crime in sport. Throwing in the towel. Quitting on your stool. Dropping your hands 100 yards from the finishing line. But Everton manager David Moyes, (pictured) whose team were thrashed 7-0 at Highbury last season, said: "With the run we've had and the result we had here last season, it was imperative we didn't have another scoreline like that." At half- time, he said, he told the players to play for the jersey. Which jersey in particular? The one worn by Dixie Dean or Colin Harvey or Alan Ball, or any of the other Everton greats who would all have remembered the club motto, Nil Satis, Nisi Optimum (only the best is good enough). Everton fans, and the club are lucky to still have any, flooded the radio airwaves the following day, insisting that they would rather have lost 10-0 than to have witnessed such cowardice. Moyes and the players, however, doubtless spent the journey home singing: "We only lost 2-0.
