In the week that Chelsea completed a summer spending spree of £270million, how typical that it was two players once of the Stamford Bridge parish that played colossal roles in driving West Ham to what, but for a baffling VAR decision, would have been a deserved London derby draw.
Declan Rice was cut adrift as a 14-year-old, Kurt Zouma only two summers ago, and along with new signing Lucas Paqueta, that pair formed the spine of a team that, after a slow start to the campaign, is starting to look more like the one David Moyes must have been imagining when he embarked on an ambitious transfer window of his own.
