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9th February 2022
11:38am GMT

"He'll learn from it [but] today [Tuesday] I had to pick a football team that gave me the best chance of winning the game as manager of West Ham.
"I know how people feel, but I'm also a football manager here.
"My feeling was that Kurt has apologised and I understand a lot of people will not just be accepting of an apology. But to me he came out and [apologised] honestly and I had to do my job."
Many have since called out Moyes for his justification with Football Weekly host Max Rushden tweeting: "Zouma picked because ‘because he is one of our better players’ - Moyes. The little known sliding scale of animal cruelty vs player quality that Moyes has employed. A championship player gets dropped for that. Messi has to go full Joe exotic to end up on the bench."
https://twitter.com/maxrushden/status/1491159400312340480?s=21Jason Burt of the Telegraph said: "David Moyes telling BT Sport that Zouma is selected because he is one of West Ham's 'better players'? David, you are better than that."
https://twitter.com/JBurtTelegraph/status/1491129675669970944 Surrey Police confirmed on Tuesday that they were investigating the incident after the Metropolitan Police released a statement to say they would not open an investigation of their own.Explore more on these topics: