It feels better than ever …it was so West Ham

It’s the morning after and it feels better than ever.

Waking up with a warm glow surrounding you after a West Ham performance has been a long forgotten feeling this season.

Abuse…despair and relentless complaining has been the agenda as the Hammers have been hit by one horror show and injury blow after another.

How brilliant to wake up to safety on the top of a display which can only be described as totally magnificent and almost beyond words.

For now we are in ninth but that will no doubt change before the end of the day. What won’t is the feeling of pride and joy in a performance which was the very best of the season on the night the LS became home.

Here we were without a “front line” striker, Arthur Masuaku, Pedro Obiang or Angelo Ogbonna but  giving those north London hopefuls a total run around.

We were left to rely on a player up front who has taken dog’s abuse from most of us – Jonathon Calleri – and he chose this moment to show himself as a brave runner with more in his game than we could ever have believed.

This is a guy who needs the ball to feet thus ensuring that there is no route one approach and he did more than enough to hold his place against Liverpool even should Andy Carroll be fit.

Sam Byram was brilliant, Mark Noble was a class leader, Kouyate excellent, Adrian outstanding – the plaudits go on and on.

But if we want to be entirely honest this was Slaven Bilic’s night as he masterminded a display which  produced the third successive clean sheet and kept one of the deadliest strike forces around almost entirely quiet.

That is not a word we can apply to the London Stadium which became a caludron of white hot noise as the colossal fans drove us on and on.

It was magnificent  and everything that we are about.

After the most horrible  season with so many issues this was so very very West Ham and it was so great that it should be Spurs of our Irons at the absolute best.

COME ON YOU IRONS