When David Moyes finally sits down to compose the story of his football life, the afternoon he took Manchester United to Everton will surely feature, because it was his very worst of times. An experience, 11 years ago, which left him 'destroyed,' he said back then.
There were the jeers of Evertonians, angered by the way he'd come back as United manager for some of the club's jewels. The frosty reception from former colleagues. The goon dressed in a Grim Reaper costume waving an imitation scythe behind him in the United dugout: an attention-seeking stunt by a bookmaker.