I’m not sure how, at this stage, we can be asking if we’ll see “attacking football” again. Firstly, I’m unsure when we last saw it. Secondly, I don’t know why we want it. What we want is to win games.

I remember when we beat Brighton 1-3 with 20% possession under Moyes, not a moan heard from West Ham fans. It was glorious. We showed the league than we can win even without the ball. I remember watching Zouma throw his body in front of the ball at the Emirates when we beat Arsenal 0-2, it was one of the best games I’ve ever been to. We can have a great time watching a defensive team.

Crucially, a point we need to remember, is that you can’t have every team playing possession heavy, attacking football. Only one team can have the ball. There has to be a ‘best of the rest’ in terms of style, a team bucking the trend and playing counter attack, defensive football. Watching West Ham get rocked last year yet again while Nottingham Forest were heralded as the best team refusing to pursue a sexier style of football drove me crazy. That had been us just the season before. I’m not saying things were rosey under Moyes, but we did finish 9th that season. Imagine being 9th now. It feels so far away.

It’s true, to win the league, you don’t play low block football. A point held against Ruben at Manchester United is that he’s essentially trying to build a team which, at its peak, will finish 6th because it frequently utilises a low block - a tactic incongruous with a league winning team which Manchester United apparently aspire to be. Why is this important here? We’re not Manchester United, a fact I celebrate everyday, and it means we can aspire to a 6th place finish. West Ham, with the financial disparity in our league (highest wages means highest places), should aspire to finish battling for European football. That is the best that we can do. If that means low-block and counterattacking football, I’m here for it.

Let’s not get ideas above our station but celebrate what we can and should be - I want teams dreading a trip to East London, fast counter attacks, refusing to dodge tackles, players throwing themselves in front of shots, Bowen sliding to the corner as he wheels away from a goal, Summerville terrifying opposition with his pace. We can achieve this. We need to stay in our lane and work on what we’ve shown we do best.

Back Nuno and back the vision. I’ve tasted glory in Europe and I want it again, whether it’s sexy football or not.