At the far end of the London Stadium the fans cheered, as the adorable young son of midfielder Lucas Paqueta sprinted clear and found the net, the fourth player in claret and blue to do so on the afternoon.
All around the ground they sang, as, mischievously, Jarrod Bowen’s face was beamed onto the big screen, the final bars of ‘Freed From Desire’ playing as the winger strolled the pitch with his heavily pregnant partner, Dani Dyer, the West Ham fans’ rewriting of that song alluding a little too explicitly to the root of her joyful burden.
