The Scotsman, who attended the recent World Cup in South Africa as a commentator before flying to Australia with his Toffees squad for a pre-season tour taking in matches against Sydney FC, Melbourne Heart and Brisbane Roar, was glowing in his praise of Australia as a potential host.

"I think Australia should get the World Cup, I do," Moyes said. "I think the country can take it.

"I think it's important (to have it) here because I see too much rugby league, rugby union (and) Aussie rules, and soccer's the main game.

"So let's get the World Cup here and let's show them what it really means and what it's like because you could certainly host it."

But Moyes qualified his support for Australia as a potential host by insisting that there would have to be better surfaces at the venues than his team has encountered so far at Sydney Football Stadium and Etihad Stadium.

"You have hosted big competitions throughout the world before, you've got great stadiums albeit your pitches aren't very good," he added. "That's the one disappointment coming here I thought.

"You've got everything, all the sports, the stadiums, but your fields aren't made for soccer the way they are back home."

Taken aback when young gun Jack Rodwell suggested he'd been 'quite impressed' by the pitches, even if they weren't quite up to English Premier League standard, Moyes was similarly underwhelmed by what he saw in South Africa.

"I went to a lot of the games in the early part of the competition," he said. "I didn't think the competition was great then, the games weren't that exciting.

"But it certainly started to hot up a little bit when we started to get to the second and third games I thought, in the group stages they started to mean a little bit more.

"I think the best team won the World Cup, I don't think we're in doubt with that. I think the World Cup was okay."

As for the 2010-11 EPL campaign, Leon Osman says the club simply must start better this time if it is to challenge the leading teams in the latter stages of the season.

He added: "As you know we had a slow start last year and ultimately we missed out on Europe because of it.

"We've got to make sure that that's not the case this year and that we come out of the traps flying and we hit the ground where we left off last season."