Moyes picks brain of rugby boss Eddie

THE League Managers Association are setting up a number of gatherings with five other sports to share coaching knowledge.

They will be working with cricket, rugby union, rugby league, golf and athletics to discover what they can learn from each other.

West Ham manager David Moyes and his No 2 Stuart Pearce spent a day with Eddie Jones and his England rugby union team at Pennyhill Park yesterday as part of the process.

Jones is as keen as the LMA to learn from other sports and he has had lunch with LMA board member and managerial great Sir Alex Ferguson. No doubt their mutual disdain for the media was discussed.

MANCHESTER CITY fans fork out £7,500 a season for Tunnel Club membership at the Etihad, allowing them to watch the teams going to and from the dressing rooms. So they may find it frustrating that City manager Pep Guardiola and his players have been involved in two major tunnel incidents this season — against Manchester United and Wigan — but both were away from home. THE Football League are conducting a staff survey in which they ask for views on the organisation’s leadership. And as the FA have found in the past, the findings tend to be very critical of management, so ultrasensitive EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey (right) might regret commissioning it. Harvey said: ‘The backbone of any successful organisation is a fully engaged workforce. The results of this survey will provide us with information as to what is working well and where we need to improve.’

THE IOC are refusing to release footage of the incident at the Winter Olympics in which British member Adam Pengilly is alleged to have made physical contact with a security guard. Pengilly insists he just brushed past. The IOC could settle the dispute, but the longer they hold on to the film, the more it looks as if the banished Pengilly has been made a scapegoat for speaking out against the IOC’s failure to ban drugs-tainted Russia from the 2016 Rio Games.