Source: Liverpool_Echo
Friendly Derby may be on the verge of returning thanks to David Moyes and Roy Hodgson
David Moyes 300[LNB]IT IS perhaps not a dynamic especially predisposed towards friendship. Opposing managers in the Merseyside derby might not equal two generals going to war, but in a city where football is almost divine it could certainly spark a personality clash or two.[LNB]David Moyes and Rafael Benitez, it's fair to presume, have not been swapping nostalgic Twitter updates since the later departed for Milan.[LNB]They may not have clashed on the touchline (a scenario Moyes is not unfamiliar with, ask Roberto Mancini) but there was enough edge to their verbals to suggest that there was no love lost between those sons of Glasgow and Madrid.[LNB]It was not always thus. Howard Kendall and Kenny Dalglish regularly competed for the biggest prizes in English football, but after the heat of battle they shared a sporting bond which persists to the present day.[LNB] Now on the eve of the 214th Merseyside dust-up, with the pressure cooker of Premier League football seemingly more powerful than ever, the balance might have shifted back towards that competitive conviviality of the Eighties.[LNB]The present day David Moyes may not be anyone's apprentice, but there was a time, as a younger coach, that he looked up to Liverpool's latest managerial incumbent as a student to his master.[LNB]'When you do your pro licence you have to do a week's foreign visit at a club,' he says.[LNB]'When I did it, Roy was manager of Udinese and I went to him.[LNB]'I'd seen him coach a couple of times at things, and so I wrote and asked if I could come. He was really obliging.[LNB]'Him and his wife took me out for dinner a couple of nights. We watched all the training, they put me in kit and got me watching games and involved in training. You've got to do a club study of the youth team, senior team and training methods. Udinese was a great club.[LNB]'They had a fantastic recruitment system, finding players from Chile. I really enjoyed it and he looked after me.'[LNB]The pair travelled to Belgium together this week to take in a game, and shared a drink afterwards.
