The footage was widely circulated on social media on Sunday afternoon to the backdrop of West Ham fans singing a song at their last home game of the season. ‘One more year, one more year, Declan Rice,’ they chanted, ‘one more year, one more year, I say, playing football the West Ham way.’
The camera phone was fixed on Rice as he stood near the centre circle at the London Stadium during a break in play in West Ham’s victory over Leeds United. Rice knows the song. He has acknowledged it before and now he acknowledged it again.