David Moyes

David Moyes is married to his childhood sweetheart Pamela Moyes. The couple has a daughter named Lauren who attended Archbishop Temple School and a son named David Jr. who also went to college in Preston.

David William Moyes was born on April 25, 1963 in Glasgow, Scotland to David Moyes Sr. and Joan Moyes. His father was involved with Drumchapel Amateurs and was a teacher at Anniesland College where he also managed their football team.

David Moyes began his career playing half a season with the youth team of the Icelandic club ÍBV in 1978. He subsequently spent two seasons at the Scottish club Drumchapel Amateur between 1978 and 1980.

In 1980, his senior career started at Celtic where he won a championship medal. At Cambridge United, he was abused by team-mate Roy McDonough for his religious beliefs, which prompted him to move to Bristol City in 1985.

He played for Shrewsbury Town in 1987-1990 and registered 11 goals from 96 matches, followed by 13 goals from 105 appearances for Dunfermline Athletic in 1990-93. Following a short stint at Hamilton Academical, he moved to Preston North End in 1993 and ended his career playing for them till 1999.

David Moyes spent a vast majority of his playing career preparing for management position and since the age of 22, took coaching badges and studied the techniques of coaches he played under. He began his managerial career taking over the charges of struggling Division Two club Preston North End in January 1998, replacing Gary Peters.

He not only managed to avoid relegation at the end of the 1997–98 season, but also took the club to Division Two play-offs the following season, where they lost to Gillingham in the semi-finals. He took the club further forward in the next season by winning the Division Two title and earning a promotion to Division One.

Maintaining the same squad, he took Preston to the Division One play-offs during the 2000-01 season, even though they missed promotion to the Premier League losing to Bolton Wanderers in the finals by 3–0. Nevertheless, he signed a new five year contract with the club one month later, but left to take charge of Everton by the end of the next season.

When he joined Everton on March 14, 2002, the club was under genuine threat of relegation, which he was able to avoid sustaining good form throughout the season. In the next season, Everton finished seventh in the league, following which he was named 'LMA Manager of the Year' for the first time.

He had a poor start in the following season and had a public confrontation with striker Duncan Ferguson at the club's training ground, but avoided relegation by earning 39 points to finish 17th. In the following season, new signee Tim Cahill scored 15 goals to help Everton claim an unexpected fourth spot, while Moyes bagged his second 'LMA Manager of the Year'.