Green’s monumental performance lifts Hammers

WEST HAM are never slow in honouring their heroes. The bronze monument outside Upton Park bearing the statues of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters is a fitting tribute to the club’s golden age, but another figure may soon have to be squeezed onto the plinth.

Robert Green’s performance in reducing Arsenal’s unbeaten home record to rubble on Saturday carried the whiff of legend. The north Londoners peppered their visitors’ goal, 27 times to be precise, but on each occasion Green was up to the challenge.

By the end, he was radiating that aura of invincibility which goalkeepers must wish they could bottle and carry from ground to ground.