Far from storming out, he just calmly gets up and walks out having stonewalled the reporter?s follow-up questions. The man is nothing if not principled...

This Victor thing is totally crazy how can a young inexperienced insensitive footballer of dubious ability cause all this furure, at such a crucial time in this season. A time when everyone in the team and who come off the bench on Wednesday night was 110% solid for the team even Andy van der Meyde sent over a beautiful cross for Gossy. Andy Shandy at last did some business, shame on you Victor ? off to the stiffs for the rest of the season with you and then end up at Sheff Wed or Utd as another wannabe.

As to Victor himself, time will tell. What Moyes has quite rightly done is to insist that whatever went on, the young man should be allowed to make whatever mistakes he (might have) made and face the consequences privately. That?s the "traditional" way of handling such situations. May I use the phrase "The Everton Way"? Objectively is that not the best approach for all concerned (except the press)?

A skillful deflection of the blame onto the reporter should have ensued not a childish ?I?m not talking? approach. Like it or not these people influence public opinion and whilst they won?t affect us blues they will influence general opinions. In this case that clearly happened from what people report took place on Talksport. These people are all part of the same ?club? so alienating them serves little long term purpose. Ferguson gets away with it because he wins trophies, imagine the crap he would get for refusing to talk to the BBC and the radio if he?d won nothing!!!

As for the headlne ?storms out? ? has the writer ever spent time with a hormonal teenager, they know how to storm out. David simply walks out, but that look could curdle milk.

We slaver, frothing at the mouth when Benitez with his limited vocabulary in replying to media questions comes out with a blooper. We close ranks when Moyes refuses point blank to offer an answer. Whether he stormed, sauntered or ran from the conference the end result was the same. We, his adoring fans are denied information on a matter that may be trivial yet nonetheless of interest.

Viz a viz a very recent TW mailbag dicussion on this topic. Strong anger was expressed that reporters and managers formed a mutual appreciation society. No embarrassing or awkward questions were asked and we were treated like mushrooms. Now we know what happens when a reporter breaks the code by daring to ask an awkward question. All done with great Everton style dignity of course.

DM did not say the Anichebe issue is off limits...you have one question, so you better make it a good one. The ground rule was obviously set off camera and the "journalist" was trying to get a rise out of DM once the cameras were rolling...DM was having none of it.

I would have loved to hear the exchange between him and that muppet Durham. Although I agree with the comment that said why give the gobshite the oxygen of publicity. One thing you can see clearly in that video is that there obviously must have been some fraught moments between him and Big Dunc when he was still here. Scarey! Ha ha!

The main presenter then said, ?well he did not even appear to answer any question and it is very rude and arrogant and shows no class!?. He then went on to say that Managers should realise that they have a duty to speak to the media about issues of interest and that whilst it was rude to the press, it will be like water off a ducks back to the journos who are used to such things. They both then commented that there would probably a strong backlash reaction against Moyes from Everton fans!

Yeah right! David Moyes is clearly seeking to protect Everton Football Club and ensure we are talked about for what happens on the pitch, not turn into a media circus joke, like Newcastle United and Liverpool for example.

IMWT...COYB