It's a trip to the Emirates in the sun to see a tonking for West Ham in this one. Still, a nice atmosphere with a young crowd and the woman in front of us offering to share her sun cream. A few fans in West Ham shirts happily mingle with the home fans.
Letting Arsenal score after four minutes is the worst possible start with Chloe Kelly crossing for Blackstinius to get between the WHU centre backs to poke home. Irons keeper Szemek makes a number of fine saves to keep the score down in the rest of the half. In the concourse at half-time there's a brass band playing Karma Chameleon which is something you don't get in the men's game.
It's a nice change to be allowed to take a beer to our seats for the second half. Very quickly Holmberg crosses for Russo to head home. Chloe Kelly scores the third with a great long-range effort. There's a worrying 14-minute pause as West Ham's Eva Nystrom is treated and then carried off on a stretcher, after making a goal-saving tackle. Thankfully the injury isn't as bad as it looked.
After play is resumed West Ham try to play it out from the back and present Kelly with another goal. It seems a bit unfair of Arsenal to have endless England forwards. On comes Beth Mead who gets on the end of a flowing move to score the fifth. West Ham have tried hard but been outclassed.
Barring the result a good day out for £15 and with a crowd of 24,711 it shows West Ham are missing a trick by playing at Dagenham and not the London Stadium, because we're not allowed to by the landlords. Hopefully we can renegotiate or buy the stadium and put some proper money into the women's side.
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