The Independent Premier League
West Ham won their first home game since February, and their first under new boss Nuno Espirito Santo, by beating travel sick Newcastle 3-1.
Lucas Paqueta’s strike, Sven Botman own goal and Tomas Soucek’s goal at the death saw the Hammers, who have looked relegation certainties over their first nine matches, register probably the shock of the weekend in the Premier League.
It was so long ago that that West Ham last won at home – 248 days to be precise – that even…