As the song goes, goes, ‘two out of three ain’t bad’ — and that’s exactly what West Ham United got today.

Now the Sunday Premier League fixtures have played out, because if you’d asked me at the start of the day which results I wanted, it would have been defeats for Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur, and Crystal Palace.

As I discussed in my earlier blog, Palace perhaps got a little lucky, scraping through against a 10-man Wolverhampton Wanderers side, whilst Forest were beaten at home by Liverpool.

Then all attention turned to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where new Spurs boss Igor Tudor took charge of his first match against North London rivals Arsenal.

In the end, the Gunners ran out 4–1 winners, although the game was probably tighter than the scoreline suggests. Quite how Gabriel Magalhães got away with what looked like a blatant dive to chalk off a Spurs equaliser is beyond me — but I’m not complaining. As a West Ham fan, we needed Tottenham to lose this one.

There was also a bit of over indulgence from former hammer Decan Rice who handed Spurs an equaliser to make it 1-1 immediately after Eze had put Arsenal...