Moyes hits back at his “dinosaur” critics

David Moyes has taken a mighty swipe at those who dubbed him a “dinosaur” on his return to West Ham.

The boss took a bashing from certain quarters on social media and – although it is early days – he could hardly have proved them much more wrong.

It understandably got well under his skin and asked the question about how he had felt in the face of such crude criticism he accused those saying it of “lacking intellect.”

He said: “I would think that someone who’s been a coach, qualified as a coach very young, someone who follows football, someone who watches and goes in learns and listens, thinks that we’ve not evolved and looking at what’s new, I feel more sad for the people who say that because it shows their lack of intellect, I think.

Ultimately as a football manager, you have to prove yourself and you have to show that you can do it. Some of the occasions, it’s not been as good as I’d like but I took on some difficult jobs.

I went to Real Sociedad, I don’t know there’s many other British managers who have been offered a job in one of the major leagues in one of the main countries.

I came back and took the Sunderland job which, if you look at it, it’s been incredibly difficult so you know just like anything else, sometimes you can try and do something but it doesn’t work so overall.

I’m in a really good place because I’ve got a brilliant bunch of lads. Even at the moment, they were disappointed that we didn’t play well enough in midweek and I can tell them that and let them know that I’m not accepting the standards, and they’ll go away, and they understand it. So I’m really pleased with the group of players I’ve got who have helped me greatly.