DAVE ON JOY RIDE

Moyes can win boo boys round forever

- MIKE WALTERS i

DAVID MOYES will go from dead man walking to tracing the footsteps of legends in the space of 60 days if he ends West Ham’s 43-year wait for a trophy tonight. 

Among Hammers managers, only Ron Greenwood and John Lyall have troubled the open-top bus depot in 128 years of bubbles and bitter pills.

But fewer than nine weeks since fans were calling for his removal at Fulham, Moyes will join them if he lands his first trophy in 1,097 games against Fiorentina here.

And yet Moyes refuses to see himself being cast as an immortal – even if he becomes the pearly king of Prague.

“I don’t think of myself as any different to anyone else,” said the Irons boss. “I’m really fortunate, privileged and thankful to be given an opportunity to be a football manager, to have the opportunity to go this far in my career and to be on a stage like this.