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Everton And David Moyes

In the Premier League era its easy to see where Everton have found themselves at the end of most seasons and dismiss them as nothing more than fodder for the more fashionable clubs; a club with little ambition, happy to just be seen near the top table, let alone take it's place among those currently occupying it. That would certainly have seemed the case until the early 2000s when Everton went from a giant of Scottish football in Lanark born Walter Smith - a man who had won everything north of the border and who's CV could rival that of Sir Alex Ferguson at the time - to another Scotsman who was barely known outside of those who regularly followed the Football League at the time. David Moyes was a young manager with a point to prove and the hunger to make it to the big time. He'd come from Preston North End, who like Everton, were founder members of the Football League and another club with a stories history in it's infancy, but not a lot to show for itself in recent ye...