As the Hammers defeated Newcastle 3-1 in a rather defensive style of fashion, you have to raise the question of what’s been different in comparison to the past few matches?

The defensive pairing didn’t change, and we were still forced to use Jean-Mare as well as Max Killjoy, yet still managed to get a result whilst also embarrassing Newcastle’s record signing of £68,500,000, keeping him the quietest anyone managed this season. Nick Wolte-Made in China must’ve turned up on the day!

But Nuno’s defensive due diligence ideologies proved well organised seeing as for the remainder of the second half, numerous substitutions were made, all of which had a major impact upon the game and formed a solid backline that we thought would be almost impossible with this side.

It appears NES has finally found the keys to the heads of the flatulent players the clubs surrounded in anger is now able to drill his defensive thoughts into them.

Playing Lucas Paqueta in a deeper ‘8’ role proved wise considering his classically reckless behaviour that he possesses didn’t come out as well as he totalled a remarkable ZERO dispossessions, which for Paqman is eye-opening....