If the impresario, former Corrie and Carry On actor, Everton owner and all-round good-guy Bill Kenwright never does anything else, the nation owes a big debt of gratitude to this last of the old-style football club chairmen for hanging on to his manager David Moyes like a limpet. Moyes is a shining light in the increasingly tawdry saga of English football. He’s been Manager of the Year three times, is almost permanently Manager of the Month, and is the longest-serving British manager in the Premiership by a mile, apart of course from Sir Alex Ferguson. There are two big tests this week, Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League and at the weekend, the Big One, Manchester United at home. But after that 2-1 victory over Chelsea the other day, United’s players and supporters should be feeling a tad wary.
And a good thing too: what Moyes has done is turn an unfashionable, unmonied club into one of the most consistently high-achieving in British football.
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