It was the London Stadium's finest hour since Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah all struck Olympic gold in 2012.
Bubbles floated into the night sky, Mark Noble jumped onto the back of Declan Rice, a tearful Andriy Yarmolenko zoned in on a Ukrainian flag waver in the crowd and threw him his shirt. The noise assaulted the senses.
Fortune has often hidden from West Ham since they moved into this arena; it has been an unpopular replacement for Upton Park and sometimes the atmosphere has been fractious rather than harmonious.