Spot of bother was all of your making, Moyes

DAVID MOYES hit a bum note last week when he chucked Mark Noble into the mix from the bench to take West Ham’s last-minute penalty against Manchester United.

I’ve loads of time for Moyes (below) and backed him repeatedly as being a manager of some pedigree.

But there’s no evidence to suggest that throwing on substitutes specifically to take spotkicks works.

It didn’t for Gareth

Southgate at the

Euros. What it does is place the burden even more heavily on the shoulders of the new player. As any penalty taker in that situation isn’t under enough already.

It should be left to someone who is up to the pace of the game. Surely any team has one competent penalty taker in its ranks. If it doesn’t, then it should have – and that’s one for the manager to rectify.

Moyes’ move fell into the category of a coach being too smart for his own good.

THIS week, I’ve finally caught up the

Amazon show about the Australian cricket team’s re-birth

under coach Justin Langer.

Seeing him boot a bin up into the air after

Ben Stokes’ heroics at Headingley was hilarious, more so when he had to clean up his own mess as the camera was on him. I also enjoyed seeing some p **** d bloke

at Edgbaston calling the Aussies cry-babies when they were on the coach back to their city centre hotel. Juvenile? I don’t care. It’s Australia. So still

bloody funny.

ROBERTO MARTINEZ. Who on earth keeps putting him forward for jobs?

Nice fella, no issue on that score. But Barcelona, really? On the basis of what?

Wigan won the FA Cup. Great. And went down. Everton went backwards. He signed players for fun who were never up to the job. A few from the Latics for a start.

Since then, Belgium, the No.1rated team in the world, haven’t lived up to the billing.

Barca are in a mess, but surely not so much that they have to get it on with Martinez? I just don’t get it.