Today Moyes is yesterday’s man

MY team of the first half of the season? Oh, go on then. It’s… Kasper Schmeichel, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Caglar Soyuncu, Andy Robertson, Jordan Henderson, Gini Wijnaldum, James Maddison, Raul Jimenez, Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy.

IF David Moyes is the answer then I’m really not sure what the question is.

And yet he continues to get prime jobs.

Will he keep West Ham up? Possibly. Will the football be great? Probably not.

I said after Manuel Pellegrini was sacked that it was about time the spotlight was shone on Hammers’ co-owners David Sullivan and David Gold.

And this appointment is about as lazy and unimaginative as it gets.

If they only had Moyes (above) in their sights and weren’t looking at other young coaches with vibrant ideas, then maybe we are looking at the end game for them.

Because Moyes should not be anywhere near a Premier

League job at this stage of his career.

Even Tony Pulis and Sam Allardyce aren’t getting the calls anymore.

And Moyes is probably only a click away from them.

I’d give it until the end of the season.

West Ham might go down or they might stay up by the skin of their teeth. And either way

I’d give him a golden handshake and say, ‘Thank you very much, if I was you I’d go off and retire now’.

I’ve seen and heard nothing in his last two or three jobs to suggest he’s anything other than yesterday’s man.

DESPITE Southampton picking up seven points from nine over Christmas, I still don’t think their fans should get ahead of themselves about staying up because they will still be in the mix come May.

But what they have in their favour is not one but two goalscorers and even with half that number they might just have enough to make the difference.

Striker Danny Ings (left, top) is a model professional and since joining the club has brought the Liverpool attitude into St Mary’s.

While Nathan Redmond (left, middle) must be one of the least talked-about young English talents in the Premier League and that shouldn’t be the case.

If Redmond continues in the same vein, then like Jack Grealish (left), we have to talk about him getting a look-in with England.

THE VAR experiment continues to plumb new depths and I just want my game back now.

It’s getting ridiculous, with players being ruled offside by a nose-hair and actively not celebrating for 30-odd seconds after scoring because they don’t want to end up looking like mugs.

VAR isn’t important enough to the game to be jeopardising it in the way it is doing.