GOLD STANDARD SET TO SEAL SURVIVAL

ROLL UP, roll up, need three easy Premier League points? Available for immediate collection at the King Power Stadium.

West Ham needed no second invitation to ease their relegation worries against a Leicester side unravelling at a rapid rate.

Forget the scoreline. This was a stroll in the sunshine, as onesided a match as you could imagine, and eventually decided by a Joao Mario goal before half-time and Mark Noble’s stupendous volley in the second half.

Marko Arnautovic pulled strings, and sometimes shirts, proving once again that he can be as infuriating as he is entertaining. On another day the Austrian Arnie could even have had a couple of goals himself.

Delighted Hammers boss David Moyes was congratulated by chairman David Gold afterwards.

Gold told the manager: “I’ve seen the boys and congratulations. Mark’s wonder goal – I’ve told him, keep practising that and do that again!”

Moyes said: “I’m really pleased. The performance, especially in the first half was good but the result was what mattered.

“Everyone was aware of the importance of the game and the sooner we got the win the better. We are capable of that performance, but we need to be capable of that every week. We were brave in the box, played good football and if we’d been more clinical we could have got more goals.

“It is a strange feeling. We are going to try to win our last two games and see where that puts us in the league. I want to build, I want consistency playing at a level you would expect.”

Tell that to Leicester. All is not well with the Foxes. Boss Claude Puel is under huge pressure from the club’s owners and big changes are likely in the summer.

Even allowing for the injuries, suspensions and end-of-season lethargy, this was another belowstandard performance and a fourth defeat in five matches.

Owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha used his programme notes to remind everyone what brought success. Well, the ‘unique spirit of togetherness that defines this club’ is taking quite a pounding.

Boos at half-time, boos at the substitution of Hamza Choudhury, and there were even boos when the players came back out to do a lap of honour in front of a few hundred people.

Last week Jamie Vardy issued an apology for the 5-0 thumping by Crystal Palace but this was just as gutless a defeat. How many times can you say sorry?

The only surprise was that it took half an hour or so before the