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DYCHE GIVEN A TASTE OF WHAT HE COULD HAVE HAD IF HIS TIME WITH TOFFEES HAD CONTINUED TO NEW GROUND

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HERE was no Ghost of Christmas Past haunting Everton when Sean Dyche returned to the Blues’ new home. The action on the pitch displayed a sharp contrast now that David Moyes has been back at the helm for almost a year.

Alan Stubbs, Everton’s captain when Moyes steered them to fourth in 2004/05 - still the club’s highest Premier League position - said that he feared the Nottingham Forest fixture represented “a real potential banana skin” for the Blues (after all, they'd triumphed 3-0 at Anfield just a fortnight earlier) while the Glaswegian gaffer felt during the 90 minutes itself that in many respects his side weren't quite firing on all cylinders like they had been in recent weeks.

It was only when Moyes watched the game back this week - as part of his usual, meticulous attention to detail - that he was able to appreciate fuller the football feast that home fans had been treated to at Hill Dickinson Stadium.

When asked afterwards, Dyche described Everton's 52,769 capacity base on the Mersey waterfront as “magnificent” but for him, it always felt like a Bullseye ‘look what you could have won, that remained tantalisingly out of reach while Blues boss.