Put a few noses out of joint in the meeja by getting in with the top 6 too often. Flavours of the month like Villa and Spurs kept finishing behind plucky little Everton. Therefore they portrayed him as a football dinosaur and managed to brainwash large swathes of the fan base into believing that finishing regularly in European places on a minimal spend was par for the course and that routine home wins were boring because they weren’t by 4 or 5. ‘Dithering Dave’ they called him.
One look at the carnage that has followed shows how utterly stupid that entire school of thought was. How people laughed at the man who thought carefully about transfers, cast out players who wouldn’t follow instructions, and drilled set pieces properly. The drill sergeant, the PE teacher, ha ha ha, look how hipster we all are having a laugh at Moyes.
None of them are laughing now after the procession of clowns that have followed. If any of them even came close to equalling what Moyes did the fan base would be in raptures now.