Moyes beat Fulham in his first game as Everton manager in 2002, but never looked like repeating the trick here. Villa, relative equals during his previous spell at Goodison, are now light years ahead.

David Moyes kicked off his second term as Everton manager in the worst possible way as his side were beaten by Aston Villa at Goodison Park on Wednesday night. The game followed a theme for the Blues as their problems at both ends of the pitch were laid bare.

David Moyes had never given up hope that Everton would summon him back but after the years of dreaming, the three or four times he came close to the job, the night he was told he had it, only to be informed the following morning it was instead going to Carlo Ancelotti,