Est gags show he can be ian than football manager

His best gag at the weekend was: “I would still consider myself in the elite group of managers.”

He continued his routine with a predictable non mea culpa for his disastrous stint at Sunderland.

He said: “It really is a brilliant club with passionate supporters. But they had big financial problems.

“We didn’t have the funds required to rebuild the team and it was also difficult to attract a level of player to make the difference.

“We couldn’t get it going. But lots of good managers couldn’t either. After I left, it sadly continued on a downward spiral.”

He was never going to omit that last sentence.

It’s funny that various exemployees of SAFC refer to the club’s “difficult time” without ever imagining that the difficulties could just, possibly, perhaps, maybe, conceivably, credibly and feasibly have something to do with their own shortcomings. It’s just a theory. It’s a pity that David “didn’t have the funds required.” Although a pedantic element might allude to the tens of millions spent on the transfers and wages of model professionals like Djilobodji, Ndong, Lescott, Pienaar, Denayer, Januzaj and Gibson.

Then there was his “motivational” ability: self-serving excuses for failing where Sam Allardyce had succeeded masquerading as reasons.

I shall stop now. It isn’t entirely healthy to dwell upon a dismal past and at least he gave us a laugh in his interview.

Life’s too short. Good luck to David Moyes.

Even better luck to whichever team he takes over next. Evidence suggests they will need it.