It probably isn’t totally necessary to do both at this present moment in time as avoiding the drop has to be the priority. Once they are safe they can begin to think about entertaining their public. They can then go back to the “West Ham way” which was described by Sam Allardyce as being relegation followed by promotion, followed by a fight against relegation.

So, given their two pre-requisites, one question is begging to be asked; why the heck have they employed David Moyes?

His record for playing attractive football is non-existent. That isn’t to say that he hasn’t managed teams with decent win rates in the past, in fact he had a reasonable record while manager of Everton. It is just that his is not a name associated with entertainment.

He also has a pretty dire record when relegation is a possibility. Judging by his past performances he can turn this “possibility” into a probability and then a fact in a relatively short space of time. Just ask any fan of Real Sociedad or Sunderland.

Maybe he just wasn’t cut out to manage teams whose name begins woth “S”.

Anyway, having spent far too long giving Slaven Bilić far too many chances to redeem himself, the board at West Ham opted for Moyes to bring to the club the two things he has been particularly bad at for most of his managerial career.

After his moderate success with Everton, Sir Alex Ferguson single-handedly, if you believe the media, took him to Manchester United. He broke nearly every bad record there was to break during his time there, one of which was the record number of crosses lumped into the penalty area in a game against Fulham at Old Trafford.

He was, very unsurprisingly, fired after a short period which, for most United fans, hadn’t been short enough!

Deciding to try his hand in Spain he took over at Real Sociedad where he discovered that the hotel, from which he rarely moved, did a decent plate of egg and chips. He also discovered a knack for languages as, in only twelve months, he learned to count to four in Spanish!

His most important discovery however, was that he could take a team into the relegation zone. Sociedad were relegated that season but Moyes was actually fired before the dastardly deed was done.

It was an experience he couldn’t wait to repeat! So as soon as was possible, he took the manager’s job at Sunderland because their owner had obviously seen something in him that nobody else in the world had seen, and he soon had them in the relegation zone as well.

Again, he jumped ship just before it sank proving what a worthy captain he was for the second time.

However, unbeknown to anybody in the know, David Sullivan and David Gold, (the Del Boy and Rodney of West Ham), had seen something in the Glaswegian which had again been missed by everybody else.

They have now put him in charge of changing the fortunes of their football team for the better and it will be interesting to see if they back him in the Winter transfer window which would be a surprise if they didn’t as the West Ham owners are the next biggest spenders outside the top 6 teams.

It seems a little strange that they are trusting him for six months because this will either be too short or it will be too long.

He could be sacked in three months if West Ham are still struggling and the board press the panic button. That being the case then his contract was too long.

He could keep them up with ease, (unlikely, we agree), in which case he will expect a new contract because his old one was too short.

Whatever happens, Moyes will not be at West Ham for very long. He will either fail to keep them in the Premier League or he will narrowly avoid the drop. Whichever it is won’t be good enough for the West Ham faithful and quite right they will be too.

When this happens the board needs to reconsider the position again, but this time it is their own position they need to reconsider and they should put the club in the charge of somebody who knows what they are doing.