Moyes worries about lost week.

Jesper Blomqvist is one of the players on International duty.

Moyes has lost 8 players to international commitments this week, and has also had to put up with the game against Newcastle, originally scheduled for Saturday, being moved to Friday at the request of Sky TV, who will be screening it live.

He said: "It's a lost week for us. I can't really work towards the game in the way I wanted to and and we can't work on other things I'd like to look at. I accept that international call-ups affect most clubs, but only ourselves and Newcastle have been asked to bring our fixture forward 24 hours and we have the three-hour journey up to the North-East to consider as well.

"I won't see the majority of the squad until Thursday, when they'll have to get straight on a bus to go to Newcastle. I think the whole situation is a little unfair."

Newcastle boss Bobby Robson has also complained about the fixture change. In my humble opinion in represents a dangerous path to travel down, where TV companies seem to have absolute control over when games are played, regardless of the straines placed on the clubs involved.