IT wasn’t just the shirts that were purple in the Everton dressing room at White Hart Lane last night.
Even before kick-off, David Moyes was still seething at the decision of Carling Cup organisers to force his players into three crucial games inside six days.
And his mood would only have worsened as his exhausted, makeshift team slumped out of the competition against Tottenham Hotspur.
Missing 10 senior players, this was always going to be a big ask for an Everton team imposed a ridiculous schedule by the fixture planners.
That the Goodison outfit lost all three of their games during the last week suggests Moyes’s displeasure, initially voiced the previous weekend, was entirely justified.
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