Archive for February 9, 2021
David Moyes back to Manchester
On Tuesday night West Ham manager David Moyes returns to Old Trafford for the Hammers’ FA Cup 5th round tie against Manchester United. It was at Old Trafford where the Scot endured an ill-fated eight-month stint as Alex Ferguson’s chosen successor in 2013-14. If his team could proceed to the quarter final of the FA Cup with a win at Old Trafford he could finally leave behind these times of failure and even more restore his reputation.
West Ham have vastly improved under David Moyes since he came back to the Hammers last season and saved them from relegation for a second time within three years. They are now fifth in the Premier League table and could have been fourth if they had won at Craven Cottage instead of drawing 0-0 with relegation strugglers Fulham on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Though West Ham’s supporters can console themselves with the knowledge that ttheir team have their highest points tally after 23 games since 1986 – and have now matched the 39 they accumulated in the whole of last season. Moyes deserves much of the credit for this.
Maybe West Ham played more “the West Ham way” in Manuel Pellegrini’s first season, but in the end it didn’t work out and the Irons found themselves in a relegation battle in Pellegrini’s second year. Pellegrini was replaced by his predecessor when everything went wrong in his second season, and now it’s David Moyes who tries to change the “West Ham way” of underachieving and blowing bubbles that burst too quickly.
When Moyes’s contract runs out at the end of the season, it is regarded as a given that an extension will be agreed. If the Scot could beat the club where so much went wrong for him some years ago and reach the quarterfinal of the FA Cup that would finally restore his reputation and also would convince some of the West Ham faithful who are still not all in Moyes’s camp.
Come on you Irons!
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