How the Moyes work ethic built a dynasty at Goodison

“Optimism was the new buzzword at a bouncing Goodison Park on Saturday.” With the chance to climb above Liverpool in tonight’s Merseyside derby and a home FA Cup quarter-final against Sunderland to follow, these words could easily fit into a report of Everton’s 1-0 win over Tottenham at the weekend. Instead it was actually the opening line in the Liverpool Echo’s account of David Moyes’ first game as Everton manager, a 2-1 success against Fulham two days after his arrival from Preston on 16 March 2002, as the Scot set about re-energising a club which, in chairman Bill Kenwright’s words, “had lost some of our belief”.

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