FROM despair one season to a repair job the next.

David Moyes left the Reebok Stadium in February with the weight of the world on his shoulders - but returned home this time with a spring in his step.

Everton leapt up the table with the weekend’s 2-0 win at Bolton Wanderers and in the process helped mend one of their most uncharacteristic - and galling - slips of the manager’s tenure.

As the team bus pulled up and the rain beat down, Moyes could have been forgiven for thinking there was a worryingly familiar feel to the day.

What Everton produced at Bolton in February was not sugar coated by the manager, there was no hiding place from his dejection and upset.

The away side that day were a terrible disappointment.

But there would be no repeat performance, even in this most trying of times for Everton, as it was the hosts’ turn to wallow in misery and look nervously over their shoulders.

The away side’s cause was aided by the dismissal of the ill judged - but not vicious - David Wheater.

As he raked the shin of Diniyar Bilyaletdinov after 20 minutes, Everton were handed the impetus to make amends for the wrongs of nine months before.

It took Moyes’ men time to adjust to the expectancy which comes with the one man advantage but by the time Marouane Fellaini put them ahead just after the break, Everton revelled in the rain.