David Moyes has gone from fruit and veg delivery driver during the pandemic - to demanding one of football’s “big prizes” to top off his 24-year managerial career.
The West Ham boss that never in his wildest dreams did he think he’d be back in the European “fast motorway” of progress. In the depths of the coronavirus lockdown West Ham were fourth bottom and fearing relegation to the Championship. Now a Europa League last-four clash with Eintracht Frankfurt - the first semi-final of his career as a coach - stands between Moyes’s Hammers and a final in Seville.
“In my wildest dreams? No I didn’t envisage it because I was trying to keep West Ham out of the Championship,” the 58-year-old said. “I have not made a big deal of it, everyone did something to help their community. It gave me something to do. It took my mind off being fourth bottom of the league! I am really lucky I have this group of players. For people who don’t see West Ham, for us to come up from near the bottom, nearly getting relegated, making Europe last year, now we are in the semi final of a European competition, it is like being on a fast motorway and I hope that continues.”
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