League leaders, Liverpool travel to Goodison Park for the final Merseyside derby as they face local rivals Everton in a Premier League encounter on Wednesday.

He harked back to Lee Carsley’s winner in 2004, to the game Andy Johnson eviscerated Liverpool two years later. There was the day Luis Suarez scored and dived in front of Moyes, the Uruguayan’s riposte after the Scot had noted his propensity to go to ground. He recalled the time when, as he said, the refereeing was more lenient.