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West Ham: Fabianski, Cresswell, Zabaleta, Diop, Ogbonna, Noble, Antonio, Rice, Snodgrass, Anderson, Hernandez. Subs: Adrian, Arnautovic, Carroll, Lanzini, Obiang, Nasri, Fredericks.
Fulham: Rico, Sessegnon, Odoi, Chambers, Ream, Nordveit, Bryan, Seri, Cairney, Babel, Mitrovic. Subs: Fabri, Ayite, Vietto, Le Marchand, Christie, Anguissa, Markovic.

Arnautovic, Lanzini and Nasri on the bench?

Hammers returned from their 'warm weather' training session in Spain to find the temperature not far off back here in 'Blighty', however the team bonding excercise seems to have been worth it judging by the Instagram snippets shared with the media of the team celebrating Manu Lanzini's birthday. There are some observers who frowned upon hearing clearly drunk West Ham players singing Bubbles at Manu's birthday bash, but they weren't doing coke in the toilets or 'roasting' young girls in their hotel, nor were any of them caught breaking curfew by sneaking out for a late night binge!

It has taken nearly three years for West Ham United and the LDCC to address one of the most glaring failures of hosting football, British football that is, at the London Stadium. Given the outrageous costs of converting the Stadium from an Athletics dome in to a football arena, it seems almost unbelievable that it has taken so much time to resolve the issue of having a pitch that virtually looked like an oval.