Last week saw the ninth anniversary of David Moyes' appointment as Everton manager, it was quite apt that it was Fulham who were this weekend’s opponents, and the match finished 2-1 with Everton taking a 2 goal lead, just as it had been in March 2002. Looking back through records I can see that Will Young was number 1 with "Evergreen" that week, which is also quite an apt description of Moyes, considering what the man at the helm of Everton's resurgence in the better part of the last decade has been through and his constraints whilst in his job.

In a week when Football further detaches itself from the the foundations on which it was based, the English game could again focus its attention on its most sacred of competition. However, it seems Everton's attentions were concentrating on a latter stage of the tournament rather than the challenge at hand.