Moyes Requests Hearing After Denying Fa Charge

The Everton manager, David Moyes, today denied a Football Association charge of improper conduct regarding comments he made about referee Mark Clattenburg after October's Merseyside derby defeat.

Clattenburg awarded Liverpool two penalties a Goodison Park, also sending off Tony Hibbert and Phil Neville for their respective misdemeanors in the area, but refused Everton one when Jamie Carragher appeared to foul Joleon Lescott in the box in the dying moments. Moyes was also incensed that Dirk Kuyt was only booked for a two-footed lunge at Neville.

Moyes, who has requested a personal hearing, is alleged to have called into question Clattenburg's integrity and/or implied he was motivated by bias following the 2-1 defeat. "We deserved that penalty if not more," said Moyes after the game. "If the other penalties were more blatant than that, then I am in the wrong game. I am seemingly seeing football differently.

"If the referee does not see that you have got to ask why. Maybe they should not be there. It can't just be me being bitter, people asked was the referee biased and I can't comment but we got nothing at all."