Football's coming home — sort of

Just when we'd got used to not worrying about relegation. At least football is returning in some form on June 17. It seems a sensible move of David Moyes to have West Ham training at the London Stadium so the lads can get used to performing in front of an empty stadium. And we're already used to a carpet gap between players and fans. Liked the idea of cardboard fans at stadiums, though surely this would give Arsenal an inbuilt advantage as they already have 60,000 cardboard fans used to sitting in silence. Another idea has been recorded fan noise, though at WHU it might be more a case of recorded insults. 

In some ways the lack of a crowd might free-up West Ham. We have a lot of Fancy Dan players (Anderson, Lanzini, Fornals) who might be better in a training-like situation than with a crowd hollering at them if they lose the ball, while younger players like Jeremy Ngakia will be under less pressure too as it will seem more like an Under-21 game. Five substitutes is an exciting idea, though it will test Moyes' conservatism. Let's hope it goes well. Though if WHU do go down how will we mount a pitch invasion? Perhaps we'll just have to invade our gardens instead.