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While football has been fretting over when it will be back in business, David Moyes has been working hard – as a fruit-and-veg delivery driver.

Prioritising the needs of the elderly in his local village by the Lancashire seaside, the West Ham manager ­answered an advert to ensure he could do his bit to help solve problems during this time of lockdown.

Moyes revealed: “When the coronavirus first hit here, I was in a fruit-and-veg shop in the village.

“There was a thing up in the window that drivers were needed. So I volunteered, as my wife was away at the time and I was on my own.

“All I was doing was ­dropping it at the door, knocking and then going away. It was beautiful big boxes of fruit and veg.

“I thought, ‘This is great!’ I was really enjoying it. Going back to the shop to get ­another lot and then filling the car up.”

Moyes spent four days ­behind the wheel and, as he chatted on Wednesday, he smiled recalling one ­incident when a pensioner shouted down her driveway that she didn’t have the correct change.

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He said: “The boys had told me that most had paid ­online, but there were a couple who hadn’t paid and would I mind asking for money.

"With this ­particular older lady, I think it was £16.80 for one box of fruit and veg. She gave me a £20 note and said, ‘Here, son, just keep the change’. A tip!

“There was another one quite similar. Another older lady. The cost of her food was £17.60 or so.

“She came out and left me £15 and was starting to go into her purse. I said, ‘That’ll do, that’s enough!’

“So I added a bit back on the tip from the other one!

“One couple recognised me. I knocked and stood by the gate just to make sure that someone was picking it up. And you could hear them say, ‘David Moyes?!’

“I never stopped and had a conversation. No autographs, I was not doing it for that.”

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Moyes, who wants the game to review its financial excess once football returns, has had some gentle stick from friends impressed that he has swapped the dug-out for the driving seat.

“Two of my pals up here, who I go out for drinks with now and again, found out that I was delivering fruit and veg,” he said.

“They were giving me dogs abuse and WhatsApping me saying, ‘Have you delivered your fruit and veg yet?’

“I ended up having to ­deliver two big boxes to them!”

Moyes’ volunteering ­remains in keeping with the community ethos around West Ham, whose squad have already agreed pay cuts.

Skipper Mark Noble was also among the key players responsible for the ­#playerstogether campaign to support the NHS.

Moyes also paid tribute to the other acts of kindness within his squad.

“There have been a lot of individual players who have been giving big donations to charities,” he said.

“Quite a few have given money to the food banks.

“Some are giving money back to their own countries. Premier League ­footballers have shown real ­commitment and ­understanding of the ­situation we’re in.”

And what about his ­everyday life?

“I don’t think daily life is average for anybody right now,” added Moyes.

“We moved into this house not long before I came to West Ham and my wife has been moaning to get gym equipment. I thought, ‘I’m not going to do that right now’.

“But I’m doing press-ups, burpees and other old-­fashioned stuff before work!”

When he is not driving a van, that is.