DAVID MOYES has challenged his Everton FC players to prove their recent revival isn’t just for show.

The Goodison outfit have charged up the Premier League table from 17th to 8th in the past fortnight on the back of consecutive wins against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Bolton Wanderers.

Having lost five of their previous six top-flight games, the change in fortunes has prompted talk that Moyes’s men have turned the corner following a trademark slow start to the campaign.

And the Everton FC manager has urged his squad not to rest on their laurels when they entertain Stoke City tomorrow afternoon.

“We have a wee bit to go at the moment,” said Moyes. “We’ve won a couple of games but if those results had gone against us we could have been fourth from bottom of the league rather than moving up as we have.

“It could be that we’re just putting on a bit of make-up, so we have to make sure that we are for real and can sustain a place in the top half.

“We have a bit of work to do yet to get that because if you lose a couple, you can easily drop away again.

“We’re trying to get a bit of a run going and if we get anywhere near the top half at the moment, it will be great.”

While Everton’s next away game is at in-form Arsenal, the remainder of their schedule before FA Cup third round day takes in presentable home games against Norwich City, Swansea City and Bolton, along with trips to Sunderland and West Bromwich Albion.