Source: Liverpool_Echo
Everton FC boss David Moyes relishing sea-side clash with old adversary Ian Holloway
David Moyes 300[LNB]TODAY may be the first time David Moyes and Ian Holloway have squared up with three Premier League points at stake - but the pair are old, not to mention fond, adversaries.[LNB]Moyes and the ubiquitous joker known as Ollie, were derby day rivals when the Everton boss was a no-nonsense centre half for Bristol City, and Holloway was a prickly midfielder for Bristol Rovers.[LNB]Moyes grins at the memory.[LNB]'He was a gas head!' says the Blues boss. 'There was a big rivalry and they were good times. They were well anticipated derbies at that time.[LNB] 'He was always a character. He was feisty and he always had qualities about him.[LNB]'You could see him going into management and that was the chosen route he wanted to take.'[LNB]Moyes had a typically forthright way of dealing with his spiky counterpart.[LNB]'I just nutted him!' he says. 'He had big centre forwards to look after him like Devon White. He always had minders to look after him at Bristol Rovers.'[LNB]Never one to duck an out-spoken soundbite, Holloway once said the only good Bristol City fan is a dead one.[LNB]'He could get away with that!' he says. 'He was always lively, always had something to say.[LNB]'He was from down that way as well with that West Country accent. He was a real competitor and I think he's shown that as a manger."[LNB]Moyes has the utmost respect for what Holloway has achieved with Blackpool on a budget which makes even his own seem like mega bucks.
