By the time the final whistle shrills at the London Stadium on Sunday, when West Ham battle for Premier League survival against Leeds United, the Hammers may be obliged to underwrite a heavy premium for complacency.
A dire relegation to the Championship would also come almost three years on from one of the memorable nights in the Hammers’ history.
West Ham have gone from the Fortuna Arena in Prague, when Jarrod Bowen and Declan Rice lifted the Uefa Conference League trophy, to a dysfunctional outfit as the scrap with Tottenham Hotspur to avoid being the final club to be despatched to the second tier intensifies.
The east Londoners require victory on the final day, while hoping that Everton can beat Spurs. These are edgy, desperate circumstances for West Ham, who will probably lose the majority of their key players to offset losses.
West Ham in free fall
