Moyes breaks his silence

Everton boss voices his anger at refusal to postpone Spurs clash

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David Moyes has broken his silence after Everton had to play their Carling Cup match against Tottenham on Tuesday.

The Toffees lost 2-0 at White Hart Lane and the Everton boss afterwards refused to speak to the media as a protest at having to play on that day.

The Scot wanted to postpone the match, which was Everton's third in six days, by 24 hours to ease the fixture congestion on his injury-hit squad.

Tottenham can not play at home on the same night as Arsenal - who were already scheduled to meet Liverpool - so Moyes believed the two fixtures should have been switched.

Point

He told Sky Sports that the point he was trying to make was that as the Toffees' game against Bolton had been moved to Sunday "it would have been simple enough to and fair enough to put Liverpool and Arsenal on Tuesday night.

"They both had played Sunday, it would have meant it was equal for both those teams to play on Tuesday.

"For us to play Sunday, Tottenham to play Saturday, gave them an added advantage so I felt that it was fair for the competition to put us on the Wednesday night against Tottenham.

"But the competition authorities thought that that wasn't right so my reason for not speaking to the press was not for any bad feeling towards the press, I hope the message was to get over that we were really disappointed, nobody would listen to our disappointment and our unhappiness about it.

"So the best way we felt was just to probably say nothing and certainly not promote a tournament which wasn't going to make it even for all teams."

Happy

Asked if it was a case that teams were being punished for being successful and qualifying for Europe, Moyes replied they were happy to play games.

"We just wanted the game to go on the Wednesday - we weren't asking for any special favours," he said.

"We weren't asking anybody to do anything different for us. We were just asking that the people organising the competition put us on the Wednesday and I think if you asked any normal football supporter they would say 'I can't understand why Everton and Tottenham didn't play on the Wednesday, that would only be right'."