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Don't bite the hand that feeds you

As Jose Mourinho found out recently and the fat Spanish waiter is about to find out, you never bite the hand that feeds you.

Today?s football manager particularly the foreign ones, possess a form of untouchable arrogance and when the rug is pulled from under their feet there are very few if any football fans that feel sorry for them. Mourinho did have the Chairman dictating who he bought and played so I do have a degree of sympathy with him, however Benitez with his arrogance and branding of Everton as a small club will receive no sympathy from a Bluenose. His comments after the recent derby still stick in my throat.

Mr Hicks owner of baseballs worst ever team the Texas Rangers who have the worst record in baseball for the last 7 years has achieved his success as being a ruthless man. Being a Texan he shoots from the hip and doesn?t suffer fools gladly. You remember JR Ewing he didn?t care who crossed his path, Rafa is now like Cliff Barnes from the old Dallas show, with JR Hicks ready any moment to lasso him in and feed him to the coyotes.

We are lucky to have an owner like Bill Kenwright ? he may not be a businessman he may not have billions in the bank, he may annoy you, but he is an Evertonian before anything else. He has always shown great loyalty to his manager, he was left with no choice with Walter Smith to get rid of him but with Moyes he has shown great faith through all the adversity.

Remember Everton were a very sick patient when Dr Moyes began the long painstaking treatment, serious illness takes years to cure and Moyes has gone about his business year in and year out strengthening the team each season, an addition here an addition there and this season with a little more cash about astute purchases of the likes of Yakubu who after a slow start is looking the 11 million pound man now. This coupled with the blooding of youngsters like Anichebe and Vaughan and the always ever willing Osman improving all the time. Arteta, Neville, Pienaar, Cahill, Baines, Lescott, Yobo, Johnson, McFadden all Moyes acquisitions have strengthened the squad in various areas of the pitch. The squad now is one of the best squads in the premiership and if we stay injury free with one or two additions we are going to be serious challengers to the big four this season.

Turning a football team round overnight is not an easy thing, Kendall did it over a few years in the 80?s when the huge amounts of money and Sky TV revenue were not about, to create a massive gulf between the rich and not so rich. Look at Newcastle lack of managerial stability, throwing silly wages at average players, not building a strong defensive foundation and they continue to flounder. Moyes has built the team from the back, he has five forwards at his disposal and Cahill the best in the business at his position. Three or four more additions a right back, midfield playmaker, wide left player and a centre half, all these players not necessarily starting 11 players, will give the squad the type of depth needed as still one or two injuries in key areas leave us a bit threadbare.

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