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Losing a game after having experienced a 'halcyon' days winning run is never a happy event, for Hammers fans such sequences are rare due to the club's traditional erratic form. So having go used to the good times fans are now having to deal with the fall out following a defeat.

All good things is an expression usually completed by either of the juxtaposed following words, 'come to those who wait' or must come to an end'. Well having waited so long for a series of empowering victories, Hammers fans were rewarded with a quite remarkable sequence of positive results, that covers the 'All good things come to those who wait'.

Wolves: Sá, Kilman, Coady (c), Saïss, Semedo, Neves, Moutinho, Aït-Nouri, Podence, Hwang, Jiménez Subs: Ruddy (GK), Hoever, Marçal, Trincao, Boly, Silva, Dendoncker, Traoré, Cundle
West Ham: Fabiański, Johnson, Zouma, Dawson, Cresswell, Rice ©, Souček, Bowen, Benrahma, Fornals, Antonio Subs: Areola (GK), Coufal, Dawson, Diop, Král, Lanzini, Masuaku, Noble, Vlašić, Yarmolenko

Many Hammers fans, particularly the older ones, are having some difficulty coming to terms with the team's current success and are waiting for the inevitable 'bursting of the bubble' to happen. Having lifted his team to the summit, the hallowed ground that is the Premier League top four, David Moyes is under no illusions as to the test(s) ahead of him and his team, it is one thing to reach the top, it is another to stay there!

Whenever a team outperforms in the Premier League, like Leicester did in their title winning season, the media descends on the club and instantly speculates whether their home grown players should be selected for International competition. With Hammers doing so well, it was inevitable that their English contingent should come under the microscope sooner or later.

Saturday's trip to Wolves will be a seminal game for David Moyes, Molineaux is never a good place to get a result, under Bruno Lage Wolves have consolidated and are now on an upward curve playing some decent football in the process. Part of Hammers recent success has been based on being able to name an unchanged starting line up, that of course will not be possible this weekend due to Angelo Ogbonna's injury.

Following the international break, West Ham pick up their domestic campaign with the away fixture against Wolves on Saturday followed by an away fixture against League Champions Manchester City the next Sunday. Sandwiched between those games is the away UEAFA Europa League Cup tie against Rapid Vienna on Thursday evening, a game that has the potential to see Hammers safely though their group as leaders which would see them avoiding a play off against any one of a number of teams dropping down from the Champions League, even Barcelona!

In the light of UEAFA's 'sudden' ban imposed on Hammers travelling fans, many who have already purchased tickets AND paid substantial amounts of money on hotels and air flights intend to go to Vienna to be part of the game and take in the atmosphere, either through sitting in local bars with fellow Hammers supporters or, more controversially, by accessing tickets originally intended for home supporters.

Of the many thousands of people who have seen Michail Antonio's glorious strike for Jamaica in their 1-1 draw against the USA, one person in particular has shown an immense amount of interest, that person? His manager David Moyes, when asked about Antonio's goal what is Moyes likely to say?

Having been repeatedly ignored by Gareth Southgate, Michail Antonio chose to represent Jamaica instead of England, he scored for the Reggae Boyz against El Salvador the other day and has just scored a stunning goal against the USA, from OUTSIDE the box!