Walker hoping Moyes’ boys can be gr-eight

WEST HAM cult hero Jimmy Walker has warned David Moyes’ men to get their relegation battle won in the next eight days.

The Hammers host Manchester United tonight and then travel across London to take on Brentford next

Sunday.

And Walker, whose old side have 34 points, reckons that four points from those two fixtures would be dreamland for all West Ham fans, and even two would do nicely for Moyes’ (right) boys before they take on fellow strugglers Leeds and Leicester.

He said:

“You’d think one win would be enough.

“If we can get to 36, 37, you’d think we’d be safe, but it’s just with the teams you are playing against in those last two games – they are fighting for their lives and only a few points below you.

“So if we can get three points out of the next two, it takes the pressure right off.

“I’d even take two points, a couple of draws, out of the next two. I’d be delighted with that. Four points would be a dream.”

Walker (below) recalled his tough experiences battling relegation and how daunting the prospect of looking over your shoulder at the chasing pack can be.

“I’ve been down there myself and it’s really hard to grind results out,” he said.

“You’re looking over your shoulder, you’re looking at all the permutations…

“It never comes easy, and football has a habit of throwing up things and you end up playing two of the teams who are below you.

“So on the one hand you say, ‘Well, that’s a good thing, we can put daylight between us and put it to bed if we can go and beat Leeds or Leicester’.

“But on the other hand, they’re looking at it and saying, ‘Well, hold on a minute, we can really drag them back into it

here’.”