It was a rare show of real emotion from this quiet man, this unassuming manager.
David Moyes ran onto the pitch, towards the joyous West Ham fans, as Jarrod Bowen finished with such exquisite beauty in the final minute of this incredible final. There was disbelief in his face…and pure, unadulterated joy.
He had gone through agonies in a contest he admitted beforehand was the biggest of his entire football career - and those agonies will not have surprised him in the slightest. Nothing has ever come easy in his 45 years in football.