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New Year’s honors winner David Moyes has called his former West Ham players “magnificent” and suggested he will not return to work at the top or bottom of the Premier League.
Moyes won the Conference League with the Hammers in 2023 but has put his 44-year professional career in the game on hold since leaving the London Stadium at the end of last season.
“I had a great time at West Ham – big thanks to the people there who helped me get the OBE,” Moyes told BBC Sport about his reign of more than five years in two periods.
“The players there were magnificent, and to win the trophy there was special. We’ve had some brilliant managers in this league, but not all of them run the course.
“Some of the world’s best managers have failed to last in the Premier League, for various reasons.”
👏 David Moyes received an OBE in the King’s New Year’s Honors List!
“I’m delighted to be in this position,” he says. pic.twitter.com/1kt2oeU1yH
— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) December 30, 2024
Moyes OBE ‘unbelievable’
Former Sunderland, Real Sociedad, Manchester United, Everton and Preston North End boss Moyes has followed in his father David’s footsteps by bestowing the honour.
“It’s an incredible honor, it really is,” he said. “I don’t think it’s something, when you start out in life, that you expect to be rewarded with things like this.
“I am delighted to be in this position. The first thing I thought about was the journey I’ve been on and the people who have helped me, whether it’s people recently or at the very beginning, like the school teachers who let me go and train with Celtic one day a week when I was 15 and he let me out of school.
“It’s the insight and belief that people have to have in you to achieve something. After all that, if I had to thank anyone, it would be my family and wife for their incredible support. My dad has an MBE and is very pleased to now have a son who has an OBE.”
Congratulations to our former player and manager David Moyes on being awarded an OBE. 💙#pnefc pic.twitter.com/i6sLFF5VyW
— Preston North End FC (@pnefc) December 31, 2024
Moyes is not ‘done’ yet
Now 61, Moyes experienced one of the most demanding jobs in football during his short spell in charge of Manchester United – the most successful team in English Premier League history – succeeding legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013/14.
He kept Preston, Everton and West Ham out of danger after being appointed, but suffered relegation at the end of his 2016/17 season with Sunderland.
“I don’t consider myself finished yet, but I’m certainly enjoying my free time,” said the Scot. “Football has been in my blood since I was a boy.
“If another part is coming, so be it. I wouldn’t want to get into something that is very, very difficult.
“It’s probably very, very difficult to be a top team, (and) I don’t want to be at the bottom of relegation and fighting relegation, which I’ve had a few times.”
