DG: “It’s amazing… I can’t really take it in”

David Gold admitted immediately after the game that he is struggling to get his head around this amazing West Ham team.

Having seen an entirely different level performance from Dimi Payet change the game at Bournemouth he told ClaretandHugh exclusively: “It’s amazing. I’m still unable to take it in properly – it was a wonderful second half performance.”

He accepted the first 45 minutes was well below par but added: “We were totally in control until Andy Carroll was forced off.

“That disrupted us but Slaven must have got into them in a big way at half time because the change was awesome.

“We see a wonder goal from Dimi who then set up the second for Enner who the decides at his free kick ‘anything Payet can do I can do better’ and that was one ferocious shot.

It’s all so amazing. It really is so hard to take in and when you see it as our fourth win on the trot and ninth undefeated it’s just fabulous.

Remember too there was no Winston Reid, Manu Lanzini and Diafra Sakho – we are really in a fantastic place.”