A fire at the Olympic stadium sent smoke over the Queen Elizabeth park early on Wednesday morning. London Fire crews were called after a van inside the stadium caught alight

West Ham  today were cool on reports linking the club with a move  for Tottenham Hotspur’s out of favour winger Andros Townsend.

Diafra Sakho’s injury problem amounts to heavy  bruising and he retains a 30 per cent chance of making it into the squad for the weekend match at Stoke.

Sam Allardyce made it very clear in an interview yesterday that there can be no immeduate return for Andy Carroll so long as Enner Valencia and Diafra Sakho are  in their present form.

David Gold is fully aware that the bigger clubs are likely to start “sniffing around” the new Hammers hot properties should this extraordinary run of success continue.

West Ham are set to talk new terms with goal machine Diafra Sakho as “a reward for excellence.”