David Moyes will admit to some mistakes. In hindsight he would not have suggested quite so early into last season that Sunderland were going to struggle to remain in the Premier League. And he sincerely regrets those remarks to a female BBC reporter. When he apologised to Vicki Sparks, he meant it.
But when invited to finally have a go back, when given the opportunity to blame anyone but himself for a campaign that ended in such bitter disappointment, there is a decency about Moyes that stops him firing a few bullets. 'At the end of the day I was the manager who got them relegated,' he says.