West Ham boss David Moyes says he relishes the pressure he's currently experiencing.

Moyes was speaking ahead of their clash with Fulham.

He said, "Of course I need this [the pressure which comes with the job].

"What a job it is. This is why we see Roy Hodgson coming back and he's 75. Neil Warnock has come back and so many people in the game, the journey they're on, they continue to stay on it because they have a great love of the game and want to stay in it.

"Part of being a football manager is that you don't always win all the time. Sometimes you have to lose and you have to deal with it. When you lose you have to learn how to bounce back, so we're looking forward to trying to bounce back in the next game.

"A manager's job is to raise expectations.

"I think we've raised expectations, and then you have to live with the raised expectations.

"We've not lived with the raised expectations this year as well as we should have done, and I can totally understand the supporters. No problem at all. Wednesday was a night where we made mistakes and I think they recognised that as well. Any football supporters at the game would have recognised that individual mistakes were the biggest cause towards us losing the game.

"The players set really good standards and they have done over the years.

"They've been really good to me, and I hope in some way that I've been good to them as well.

"We've got to build on it, Aaron Cresswell is a boy who sets really good examples. He learned a lot from Mark Noble, and we've got a lot of players here who are telling the others what the expectations are and what we're trying to do."