West Ham will resist the urge to sneak David Moyes into their dressing room in a laundry basket as the club kickstart their new European campaign tonight.
Moyes is banned for the Europa Conference League play-off first leg with Danish side Viborg, and assistant Billy McKinlay yesterday joked they could hide him in a ‘wheelie bin’, as Chelsea famously did with Jose Mourinho in 2005.
Moyes is suspended after kicking the ball at a ball-boy during West Ham’s Europa League semi-final defeat by Eintracht Frankfurt last season, and captain Declan Rice and vice-captain Aaron Cresswell are also serving bans.