It takes quite something to start a game well and end up two goals down inside 15 minutes, so hats off to West Ham, who’ve now managed it twice in 12 days.
As against Newcastle, the home side had come out of the traps with intent, achieving the not straightforward task of dragging the London Stadium crowd onside (their default starting position of late has been neutral at best), only to concede from the opposition’s first two attacks.
