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Mass walk-out from Hammers fans as rampant Gunners

YOU really have never seen anything like it.

It was Arsenal's biggest-ever away win in the Premier League, West Ham fans had left in their thousands by half-time and surely even the celebration police would forgive the visitors enjoying this one.

Bukayo Saka scored a brilliant double, exorcised some ghosts of last season and Declan Rice then got the best goal of the lot and did not celebrate out of respect for his old club.

The England international need not have worried - by the time he got Arsenal's sixth goal, most of the West Ham fans had left anyway.

They departed in their thousands even by the break, leaving the stadium half-empty for much of the second half.

It was West Ham's joint-biggest home defeat and is the sort of humiliation which get managers the sack.

There should be no question of that with David Moyes but, at a time when the debate is raging about whether he will get a new contract, it will hurt him deeply.

Because as good as Arsenal were, West Ham were woeful.