David Moyes
David has been a winner of the prestigious LMA Manager of the Year award a record three times in confirming the potential he showed as a young boss with Preston North End. The Glaswegian was still four months short of his 35th birthday when he took charge at Deepdale in 1998. Moyes, who started taking his coaching badges at the age of 22, had planned well for management during a relatively modest playing career that began with Celtic and included Cambridge United, Bristol City, Shrewsbury and Dunfermline. Preston reached the play-offs in his first full season and were promoted as champions of Division Two the following year.
Moyes almost followed that with a second successive promotion that would have put North End in the Premier League. David became one of the hottest properties in management as Manchester City, Southampton and West Ham all courted him. After patiently awaiting the right opportunity, he chose Everton as successor to Walter Smith in March, 2002. He inherited a team languishing 15th in the Premier League and ensured Everton's survival in the top flight before lifting them to seventh the following season amid the emergence of a 16 year old Goodison prodigy called Wayne Rooney. Everton dipped in 2003-04 and Moyes faced arguably his greatest challenge after Rooney was sold to Manchester United in August. Moyes again showed his resilience when Everton started poorly in 2005.
In 2009 Moyes was named LMA manager of the year after a successful season leading Everton to 5th in the Barclays Premier League and the FA Cup Final. The memorable cup run included victories over Aston Villa, Middlesbrough, Liverpool as well as a Wembley win over Manchester United in the semi-finals.
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