David Moyes' gamble pays off as West Ham hold their nerve to spring surprise on Tottenham
It was not a performance to win any beauty contests, nor one to appease those who see David Moyes’s style of football as a hindrance to progress. One suspects though, that this evening, they will be among a quiet minority.
On a sodden night in north London, in a game in which they might easily have been hammered did what on such occasions they somehow often seem to do, finding a way to stay alive and then, from nowhere, a counter-punch of their own, to that, remarkably, takes Moyes’s men of Ange Postecoglou’s much-heralded side.
