'I’m normally calm' - Everton and Man City bosses explain touchline 'fight'
During his time as Everton manager, long-serving boss David Moyes famously compared games against petrodollar-fuelled Manchester City as like “taking a knife to a gun fight” but 14 years ago today, he found himself embroiled in some good old-fashioned ‘handbags’.
March 24, 2010, was the date of a rather unseemly but thoroughly amusing touchline spat between Moyes and his opposite number Roberto Mancini at the Etihad Stadium. Everton were closing out a 2-0 away win over Manchester City thanks to goals from Tim Cahill (33) and Mikel Arteta (85).
At a time when the Blues enjoyed something of an Indian sign over their big-spending regional rivals from down the East Lancs Road, visiting fans were rubbing it in towards their hosts. Chants of “Lescott, what's the score?” were directed at their former centre-back who had quit Goodison Park for City earlier in the season for £22million after a protracted chase and was watching from the stands having been sidelined through injury.
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It would prove to be the second of three Everton wins over Manchester City that calendar year and was one of seven Blues victories over a period of eight matches in the fixture between 2008-11. Mancini, who had replaced Mark Hughes the previous December, tried to portray himself as being something of the Italian gentleman but frustrated by the scoreline he let the mask slip on this occasion as the red mist descended.
With Everton attempting to shore up their three points by preparing to bring on centre-back Joseph Yobo for goalscorer Arteta as a last-minute substitute, Moyes caught the matchball after
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