When it emerged before kick-off that illness had swept through the West Ham camp overnight, causing three players in line to start to be sent home at around 2pm this afternoon, David Moyes and those high up in the away end will inevitably have feared the worst.
Manchester City are the best team in the land — back at the summit of the Premier League with a game in hand on Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal. But they were made to work hard for it.
