David Moyes has made it clear that the squad and himself will be “doing it for the supporters” when they resume action in the Premier League.
And he knows they are going to be massively missed as the team go about their business over the next few weeks.
Having declared that the squad is getting closer and closer to being ready the missing fans re going to count in a big way as we look for the results we need.
He told www.whufc: “The supporters will be massively missed. I was looking forward to the run-in because, in my last stint here, we were in a pretty similar position, and I thought the supporters made a massive difference.
We went and won at Leicester, we came back and drew with Manchester United in the midweek game, and then we beat Everton on the Saturday. I’m really hoping for a good run-in which gets us the points, similar to what we had before.
We’ll be doing it for the supporters. That’s what football is about – you do it for the supporters. I don’t like football without the supporters but this is the way it’s going to be for the moment.”
And in a direct message to the Claret and Blue Army the manager added: We look forward to having you back at London Stadium, and we want to make sure we’re a Premier League team when we get you back.
We’re trying to give ourselves every advantage we possibly can.
We’re not now training to keep fit, we’re training to go and win Premier League games – that’s the difference. Maybe five or six weeks ago we were training to keep our fitness up, but that’s completely changed now.
Our game against Wolverhampton Wanderers is the goal, but then obviously shortly after that we’ve got Tottenham Hotspur.
We’re going to need all the squad, we’re going to have to be fit and well, and we want to try and get off to a good start in those games.”
ClaretandHugh says: Good words from Moysie and clearly from the heart. We have become overly familiar with cliches about fans being the 12th man and all the rest of it. But for the first time, perhaps, the game is going to discover what a barren wilderness it will be with no fans inside the grounds What we will discover is that they are not a “12th man” but are, always have been and always will be but the very essence of the game.