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Time and tide taken their toll?

David Prentice has finally noticed that David Moyes ain't as chipper as he used to be. Fiery optimism and a determination to challenge the Big Boys has given way to a resigned sense of defeatism.

It might have taken 10 years, but David Moyes finally sounds like a man who has been ground down by the system.

"Bang your head against a glass ceiling often enough and you'll get a headache," Prentice writes, "and the Blues brilliant young boss has been talking all season like his temples have been throbbing.

"It never used to be like that. On May 10, 2005, Moyes declared: 'I don't mind if people expect a lot from us. Not one bit. That has always been one of my objectives — to raise expectations here.'

"On Friday August 19 this season, he deliberately lowered them.

?'I think we are going to have a big struggle to finish in the top 10 this season. I think we have to be careful in what we believe Everton are capable of achieving.'

"So what's changed?" Prentice continues.

"Has Moyes finally, belatedly, accepted the way of the Premier League world?

"Or is Everton's financial outlook now so bleak that he can't even see a glimmer of hope for the immediate future?"

Quotes or other material sourced from Liverpool Echo

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