HALF RICE CLEARANCE

Irons fans leave well before Dec strikes

- JOHN CROSS

YOU really have never seen anything quite like it.

It was Arsenal's biggest ever away win in the Premier League, West Ham fans had left in their thousands by halftime and surely even the celebration police would forgive the visitors enjoying this one.

Bukayo Saka got a brilliant double, exorcised some ghosts of last season and Declan Rice then got the best goal of the lot and did not celebrate out of respect for his old club.

Rice need not have worried. By the time he got Arsenal's sixth goal, most of the West Ham fans had left anyway.