David Moyes Struggles To Remember Real Sociedad Players’ Names During First Game, Just Yells ‘Stefano’ At Everyone (Video)

Chris Wright

25th, November 2014

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By Chris Wright

“Get Stefano off, he’s having a bloody ‘mare”

Here at Pies, we’re not ones for panning David Moyes at every turn – in fact, we’re really rooting for him to succeed at Real Sociedad as we genuinely think he showed an impressive bit of moxey to go and try his hand in La Liga’s upper-middle reaches.

Anyway, Moyes’ first game in charge of Sociedad was a 0-0 draw against Deportivo La Coruna and while the result was perfectly serviceable, a few swatches of behind-the-scenes footage compiled by Canal+ show that the former Manchester United boss had a job on remembering a few of his new players’ names.

As well as having to query with his bench whether or not he was looking at Chori Castro, Moyes displayed an admirably stout British-gent-abroad mentality when struggling to get a message across to his midfielders, simply opting to call everyone “Stefano” in a bid to get their attention…

A cursory glance at the Real Sociedad squad list reveals there are no Stefanos, with Esteban Granero suspected to be the intended target of his hollering.

Meh. Close enough.