‘My darkest night in football’

DAVID MOYES lost his first FA Cup

tie as the rookie boss of Everton 21 at Shrewsbury in an FA Cup third round tie in 2003 — he will hope history doesn’t repeat itself 15 years later with West Ham. He did guide Sunderland to a 1-0 win against The Shrews in the League Cup at the Stadium of Light last season. ‘But I have got to say it was certainly one of the darkest nights,’ said Moyes of the infamous defeat to a side then languishing 80 places below Everton in the lower reaches of the old Third Division. ‘When I talk about my disappointments in football, it was when I lost at Shrewsbury with Everton a long, long time ago.’