Bill Kenwright credits David Moyes as one of the best

Gushing with pride on EvertonTV, chairman Bill Kenwright said:

I can remember ten, 12 years ago, people would, sadly, say ‘Everton were one of the top six’ - and we were.

"When the Premier League was first mooted all those years ago, it was always (talk of) the top six clubs and Everton were one of them. Now, we are, by right, one of the top six clubs again. We aren’t in terms of money, we are, definitely, in terms of history, but I think we are in terms of today and tomorrow now. If I can take some share in that then fantastic – but it’s not me, it’s David Moyes."

"It was David Moyes who came in, and I remember right from the word go, it was his decision to bring the age of the players down.

"(He said to me) every year make sure you can give me one major signing and I will fill up the rest."

"What the fans don’t know, and what is my privilege, is how much actual work he puts in to every game," he continued. "You might think all managers do; this manager is painstaking in his research, in his knowledge of the opposition and getting across to the players what they will come up against.

"Not a lot has changed in David’s attitude since he arrived but a lot has changed in the stature of this football club.

"I can remember saying within months of him arriving that he was going to be one of the great managers; I think he is one of the great managers now.

"There’s no shadow of doubt about that, he’s one of football’s great managers."

Louis Saha puts on a one-man show

As Everton supporters started to make their way out of Upton Park with ten minutes remaining in the match, Louis Saha turned the match upside down with a stunning five minutes as the Toffees beat West Ham 3-1. Gianfranco Zola's club out-played Everton throughout the majority of the match with twenty year-old Wales international Jack Collison striking a beautiful goal three minutes past the hour mark. Three minutes later David Moyes brought in the attacking minded James Vaughan for young Jack Rodwell who had played a splendid match and slowly the match opened-up. Still a goal behind, Louis Saha took it upon himself with eight minutes remaining crossing perfectly to Joleon Lescott who nodded the ball in and then notched two goals of his own at the eighty-fifth and eighty-seventh minute. While the thirty-year old was the story of the match, surely the continued brilliance of Freddie Sears is deserving note. The eighteen year-old striker who figures in England U-21 lineup is pure magic and should be rubber-stamped in Gianfranco Zola's lineup.

Everton crushes Bolton in last minute

When he came from Standard Liège the phrases used by the media to describe Marouane Fellaini was a "box to box" midfielder although anyone who saw him in Belgium knew he was so much more. Maybe the time has change the description because his goal scoring prowess is quickly making a powerful statement.

Following the difficult loss against Man Utd, marked with Wayne Rooney's ramble-rousing, the Toffees were in a sticky situation. Winless since the fourth week of the season, the bottom of the table was starting to wake-up and a victory was desperately needed.

The last few weeks, we've seen a glimmer of hope raise to a chest thumping roar. The loss to Arsenal stirred that glimmer and against Man Utd with all their awards and gleaming trophy cases, we stood up and we're counted. We rose in strength and found a way to fight and challenge our way to a tough draw. Today that glimmer resounded as once again with their backs against the wall David Moyes' forces dug-in and as time ran-out Steven Pienaar's cross was headed-in by Marouane Fellaini to give them a 1-0 victory over Bolton.

It was not a "classic" victory and if I am to be truthful, Bolton outplayed Everton for the most part. However through a hard-nosed work ethic and never back-down mentality the Toffees head home with three points and await Fulham this Saturday.