Moyes offers no comment on Evra claims | 'Rice rant shows we care'

David Moyes has refused to comment on claims made by Patrice Evra that some of his former West Ham team-mates said they would refuse to shower with gay players.

Former Manchester United defender Evra, who had a brief spell with the Hammers in 2018, made the claims during an appearance on Gabby Logan's Mid Point podcast when recalling an inclusivity talk given by an FA official to the West Ham squad.

"It's like you can't be a gay football player, people will go mad," said Evra, who joined the Hammers as a free agent in 2018 following his departure from Marseille.

"I give the example, when I was playing for West Ham, someone from the English federation came and he said, 'We need to accept everyone.'

"The amount of players that were like, 'No, if some of my team-mates are gay they have to leave now, I won't do any shower [with them].'

"I stand up and I say, 'Shut up, shut up everyone, can you hear yourselves?'

"We still don't accept everyone. In the football world, they are not open-minded enough and it's a shame."

Moyes, who was West Ham's manager at the time, insisted he had no knowledge of the events Evra was referring to and said he could not comment.

"The first thing I'd say is that I know nothing about it, so I couldn't comment on it at all," he said at his press conference on Friday.

"But I think times have even moved on from four years ago, if that's when you're saying it was. I think lots of things have improved and everybody is much more aware of different situations.

"But I can't comment on it because I don't know anything about it."

Moyes was speaking a day after West Ham's Europa League semi-final defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt and insisted Declan Rice's foul-mouthed rant towards Europa League referee Jesus Gil