Things change quickly in football. Prior to the opening day victory against Arsenal, West Ham had not won away since December 2014.

By October 2015 West Ham have the best away record in the Premier League.

A trip to struggling Sunderland would have been seen as a game West Ham perhaps ‘should’ be winning. But things never work out as simply as that and the first-half display at the Stadium Of Light showed that no one should be getting ahead of themselves.

But there were positives and as I have been mentioning for a few weeks, West Ham can score goals. This may seem like a basic thing to point out but when you have goals in your team there will always be a confidence that you can get back into games.

Going 2-0 down at Sunderland was clearly not in the game plan but the players stuck with it and the goal from Carl Jenkinson just before half-time changed the match completely.

Scoring an equaliser so early on in the second period, coupled with Sunderland having a man sent off, only led to frustration that West Ham did not go on to win.

Coming back from two goals down is still impressive and if Sam Allardyce was the manager I am sure the media would have been praising Slaven Bilic’s side for its “determination” and “resilience”.

Unfortunately for the Allardyce-loving media, this West Ham side simply played their way back into the game.

With eight league games played there has been a dramatic improvement in the style and entertainment West Ham have produced this season.

The games are entertaining (even the two losses) and there is a confidence the current squad has enough depth to not fall away like last season.

The player central to the way West Ham have performed this season is Dimitri Payet, who scored again on Saturday. He has been simply outstanding and whilst he may have come with a lot of hype, I have been surprised at how brilliant he has been.

As I mentioned, things change in football very quickly and this week saw the two-year anniversary of the 3-0 win at Tottenham Hotspur where midfielder Ravel Morrison stole the show.

If you had told West Ham fans that day he would never go on to do anything else at the club few would have believed you.

With games against Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Watford to come it’s worth reiterating there are no easy fixtures in this division and West Ham have no divine right to be winning any of them.

I have always subscribed to the theory that if you can play good football and score goals you will likely succeed and nothing I have seen so far this season has dissuaded me from that opinion.