Southampton v Everton [R] [Archive]

kerpow

11 Sep 2002, 05:11 PM

Saints 1 - EFC 0

Bollox. Another boring, scrappy, uncreative display by Everton against one of the weakest teams in the division. Looks like our early optimism will quickly be replaced by the usual relegation dogfight.

Rocket

11 Sep 2002, 05:37 PM

I listened to Southampton's webcast of the game (Everton's webcast is a little too dry for my taste and often has minutes on end of open-mike dead time) and was very disappointed by Moyes' behavior after the game.

Southampton's sideline reporter was waiting in the tunnel to the lockerroom area for a player interview, and in the background you can hear Moyes yelling "....f***ing..... ....f***ing..." at someone. Before embarassedly returning the broadcast back to the play-by-play announcer, the reporter mentioned that it was the referee who had been the object of Moyes' verbal attack.

I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see Moyes disciplined for this incident. It's presumably all on tape, and I would hope that the FA wouldn't tolerate its match officials being treated in this manner by either managers or players.