The last few weeks of West Ham’s season have been rather like the excavation of an archaeological site, Declan Rice and David Moyes chiselling away at the layers to gradually uncover the hallmarks of a forgotten tribe.
First came glimpses of the old West Ham resilience in defence, then the counter-attacking thrust on which the success of the last two seasons has relied, and at Bournemouth on Sunday, another lost relic of Moyes’s peak Irons Age emerged: a set-piece threat to rival any in the league.
