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Those bastions of sports coverage integrity, the Express and the Sunday Express, have an uncanny knack of acting like a reportage echo. Someone prints something and then the article, with a bit of editing, magically re-appears, and it is in the case regarding Chelsea's Tammy Abraham.

We had a bad, bad feeling at The Org ahead of the crucial game against Everton, and unfortunately those thoughts came to pass. The team selected to play against the Toffees was the same one that had just dismantled Burnley, so there couldn't be many who would have doubted the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it philosophy ahead of the game.

West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Diop, Dawson, Cresswell (c), Soucek, Lanzini, Fornals, Lingard, Benrahma, Antonio Subs: Randolph (GK), Balbuena, Ogbonna, Fredericks, Johnson, Coventry, Yarmolenko, Bowen, Odubeko
Everton: Pickford, Coleman (c), Keane, Mina, Godfrey, Digne, Allan, Davies, Sigurdsson, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin Subs: Olsen (GK), Holgate, Delph, Doucoure, Iwobi, Nkounkou, Bernard, Gomes, King