West Ham boss David Moyes issues frank view on his time at Sunderland

Former Sunderland manager and current West Ham United boss David Moyes has spoken out on his time in the Stadium of Light dugout. 

Moyes was appointed Sunderland boss in 2016, but lasted just one season after he handed in his resignation following the club’s relegation to the Sky Bet Championship.

Now, speaking in an interview with The Athletic, Moyes has opened up on what he calls the ‘biggest disappointment’ of his managerial career.

“When I look back at it, they had just stayed up with Big Sam,” Moyes explained via The Athletic.

“But, it was by the skin of their teeth.”

“I felt I would be able to do the same, and you only have to look at what has happened to Sunderland over the years to see there were bigger troubles there.”

“It’s not just been down to one manager or one incident, so yes I chose wrong.”

“That’s how things can go. It didn’t go so well for me at Sunderland.”

Since resigning from the Black Cats following their relegation, Moyes went on to have an interim six-month spell with West Ham during the 2017/18 season.

Once his interim contract was up, he was replaced by Manuel Pellegrini, but Moyes would return to save the Hammers from relegation in 2019/20.

Since then, West Ham have gone from strength to strength – from strugglers to European competitors – having qualified for the Europa League and reached the competitions quarter final stage, so far.

Moyes faced a lot of criticism from the public and media following his unsuccessful spells at Manchester United, Real Sociedad and Sunderland, and says it did have an effect on him.

“Did it have an effect? It did.” Moyes explained.

“But look, ultimately I’ve got a strong family, a great wife behind me, and we got through it fine.”

“Football is a game.”

“Sometimes