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Like him or loathe him you cannot begrudge David Moyes' moment of joy, the much maligned Hammers manager, often portrayed as a cartoon zombie, 'ressurected' the fettid and rotting cadava of a team that he inherited from the previous 'daddy of them all' zombie on watch Manuel Pllegrini. There were two exceptions to the bloated imbalanced squad that Moyes had to motivate and mould after taking over the club's management for the second time, his two acquisitions during the January transfer window, Jarred Bowen and Tomas Soucek.

West Ham: Fabianski, Johnson, Ogbonna, Diop, Cresswell, Rice, Soucek, Noble, Fornals, Bowen, Antonio Subs: Randolph, Balbuena, Yarmolenko, Anderson, Lanzini, Wilshere, Haller, Masuaku, Coventry
Watford: Foster, Femenia, Dawson, Kabasele, Masina, Cleverley, Doucoure, Sarr, Hughes, Welbeck, Deeney Subs: Gomes, Mariappa, Chalobah, Cathcart, Joao Pedro, Gray, Quina, Pussetto, Pereyra

Broadcasters have been asked to increase sound levels for this evening's match between West Ham United and Watford FC at the London Stadium, it is felt that a game of such importance warrants additional crowd noise as the encounter would have provoked 'intense' verbality had it been held in front of a 60,000 crowd as it would have been pre covid-19.