da brwin: When a new manager takes over at a club, his preferred backroom team come with him.
da betway: At West Ham United, David Moyes, who was hired as Slaven Bilic’s successor last week, has brought in Stuart Pearce, Alan Irvine and Billy McKinlay.
Pearce spent two years as a Hammer during his playing career, and has had various coaching stints since retiring.
The 55-year-old has managed Manchester City and Nottingham Forest, as well as the England Under-21s, of which he coached for six years.
Irvine arrives at the London Stadium on the back of a spell at Norwich City, and is well aware of Moyes’s methods having worked with him at Preston North End and Everton.
McKinlay also joins the backroom team at West Ham having been a member of Moyes’s staff at Real Sociedad.
After the news was announced, the club’s supporters gave their verdicts of the appointments on Twitter.
Moyes’s first game in charge of the East London outfit will be away to Watford on Sunday.