Time to lay Man Utd jinx to rest for Moyes

HEAD of Everton’s return to action against Manchester United on Monday, Pat Nevin claimed that David Moyes “won't care” about his record at Old Trafford - but long-suffering Blues supporters certainly do!

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The former Everton winger and fellow Glaswegian insisted: "Here's the truth, David Moyes won't care. That's the reality, managers don’t care about things like that. It’s just another game, it's three points."

These are not, of course, the words of Moyes himself.

But in reality, the Blues’ record away to the Red Devils in the modern era is wretched.

Other than the one season when Moyes himself was Manchester United boss, and Bryan Oviedo's late strike secured victory for Roberto Martinez’s men - now almost a dozen years ago - the last time Everton triumphed in the fixture was back on August 19, 1992.

Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap was at number one in the UK charts when goals from Peter Beardsley, Robert Warzycha and Mo Johnston gave Howard Kendall's side a handsome 3-0 victory.

Back then it was no big deal. It was Everton's fifth win at Old Trafford in nine years.

Howard Kendall was the double title-winning manager while Ferguson was still waiting to break his duck. Younger readers might struggle to comprehend it, but those brace of titles secured under Kendall in 1985 and 1987 had put the Blues two ahead of United in the League Championship count, as the biggest domestic prize had not been in the Old Trafford trophy cabinet for a quarter of a century.