It really is time to give Moyes a break

By Hugh Southon

Gotta be honest about this – I become more and more fed up with the Moyes knockers.

Like most others who know anything at all about this game I’ve become heartily sick of the regular change of management which has stripped this football club of an identity.

For the sake of this piece I’m only going back as far as Sam Allardyce and wish he wasn’t on the list at all.

But to go from his “respect the point” and “get it forward quickly” style to the more sophisticated, if fragile Slaven Bilic, onto Moyes, then Pellegrini and back to Moyes shows nothing other than misdirection and confusion at the top of the club.

But I do get a little cheesed off and more when a bloke saves us from relegation amid crowd protests TWICE and is regularly blasted as boring, predictable and dull.

His first arrival was marked by a crowd invasion and major demonstrations but he managed to save us – in part –  by turning Marko Arnautovic into a very good striker.

Many of the people who were moaning about him then, later decided he was given a raw deal by the board who decided to stick all their dough on red by backing Pellegrini like no manager before or probably ever again.

What a failure that was and back we went to Moyes who supplied us with some great football after lockdown and is starting to show again that maybe, just maybe, he might just give us a team which can defy the expectations of most by taking a few points over these upcoming difficult games.

We could also find ourselves moving on into the later rounds of the Carabao Cup should we manage to beat Hull City on Tuesday night.

Along the way, we may discover that the much-maligned Arthur Masuaku – given what we saw against Arsenal – could become a key figure in a revival of fortunes not too many expect.

The Arnautovic masterstroke was a major factor in the club remaining in the Premier League…Masuaku’s development as a left-winger could be an another this time around if he can retain a level of consistency we haven’t seen previously.

Moyes is not the mug many believe him to be or a bloke who should receive the sort of bashings he has in the past. He may not be the most charismatic but he’s what this club needs right now I reckon.

Let’s just hope a certain Mr David Sullivan allows him to develop things his way and eventually appoints a director of football who can genuinely see this club move forward and develop a much needed footballing image.

Whatever that may be!