SCORE BLIMEY! GR-EIGHT NIGHT FOR HAMMERS

WEST HAM recorded their biggest win in 35 years – in perfect preparation for Manchester United’s visit on Saturday.

The only negative was that the most one-sided game at the London Stadium was played out in front of just 24,833 fans.

West Ham’s first chance came from a set-piece, but when Danny Whitaker cleared a shot from a corner off the line, it was only a temporary reprieve.

On 29 minutes, the ball was clipped back into the area and Michail Antonio made no mistake with an unmarked six-yard header.

Three minutes later, Grady Diangana’s shot from a tight angle was too hot to hold and Robert Snodgrass (left) forced the ball over the line for his first West Ham goal after Macclesfield keeper Kieran O’hara could only push the ball up into the air over his head.

Aaron Cresswell then crossed for Lucas Perez to score with a neat volley six minutes before the break.

In the second half, the Hammers were almost too embarrassed to celebrate. Ryan Fredericks was strangely muted opening his account with a thumping right-foot drive into the roof of the net.

Angelo Ogbonna was next with a 54th-minute close-range header before Snodgrass steered another low shot home on the hour.

Diangana squeezed in the seventh to mark an impressive debut and, eight minutes from time, he cut inside and shot in off the far post for his second and West Ham’s eighth.