The days are long gone when you could offer a penny for someone’s thoughts. In modern football you might need thousands, tens of thousands, millions even, of hard currency. Whatever amount, an insight into Dimitri Payet’s mindset as he learned of West Ham United’s efforts without him would be well worth consideration.
After a half of turgid football that summed up all the difficulties you would imagine a team to have, shorn of a creative leader, a most valuable player, West Ham found enough inspirational verve to leave the pitch with deserved applause ringing in their ears.
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