‘Massive' is the West Ham fans’ favourite word right now. They sing about how that’s what they are, wherever they go. Well, now they’re in the semi finals of the Europa League.
Just two legs against Eintracht Frankfurt. That's all that separates West Ham and a major European final, and the ease with which they dispatched of Lyon was indeed ‘massive’.
Their French hosts tried their best to intimidate their visitors. They had their fireworks, their flares, their whistles and drums, but they didn’t have the je ne sais quoi that West Ham had.
Once Craig Dawson’s headed opener went in, it was curtains for Lyon.