David Moyes has spoken of his disappointment at being charged by the FA for comments in the wake of the Merseyside derby defeat to Liverpool.
The charge relates to comments he made about referee Mark Clattenberg following the controversial 2-1 defeat at Goodison Park on October 20th.
The Blues boss has been charged with two breaches of FA Rule E3 in respect of comments he made after the game and also comments in the press conference the following week.
The Goodison chief has been surprised by the charge - and insists he is not guilty of any breach.
He told evertonTV: "I was disappointed with the FA charge. I think unanimously throughout football the referee was condemned for some of the decisions he made.
"I think if you check my words they were correct. The media wouldn't want me to come out after a game and not answer the questions posed to me.
"But I may have to start doing that now because, after the derby, if I hadn't come out and given my responses to the questions being asked then people would have started questioning me.
"Maybe freedom of speech is under threat. Or maybe the FA are trying to take the money off the Scotsmen because England didn't qualify! It is a nonsense because if you look at my words there was nothing disrespectful whatsoever."
The FA charge states that ‘It is alleged that the comments made referring to referee Mark Clattenberg on each respective occasion amount to improper conduct as they call into question Mr Clattenberg's integrity and/or imply that Mr Clattenberg was motivated by bias.'
Everton lost the game against Liverpool but the main talking points after the match centred on the dismissal of Tony Hibbert and the late penalty appeal that the Blues had turned down for a challenge on Joleon Lescott by Jamie Carragher.
Moyes has a couple of weeks to consider his formal response to the charge.
He will probably end up getting charged for that too 
