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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

David Moyes and ill-advised yuks after West Ham’s Euro exit

Who could forget his earlier material, including the slap routine.
Who could forget his earlier material, including the slap routine. Photograph: Friedemann Vogel/EPA

MOYES WILL BE MOYES

When it comes to misguided attempts at humour, The Fiver considers itself something of an authority. After all, they are our stock-in-trade and we’ve been churning out tin-eared attempts at “satire” on an almost-daily basis for more than 20 years now, spectacularly failing to read a global room that expects more from its free tea-timely email than a series of lazy national stereotypes, unimaginative nicknames and a litany of impenetrable, unfunny in-jokes that are so old not even we can remember why they were originally supposed to be funny.

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