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A lot of people were raving about the 18-year-old Irish midfielder playing against Manchester United

Published 18:28 13 Aug 2017 BST

Darragh Culhane
A lot of people were raving about the 18-year-old Irish midfielder playing against Manchester United

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

For West Ham fans it was an awful day but for Manchester United fans they were more than happy to see the days of old back at Old Trafford. It was their biggest win in three years as Lukaku scored twice, Martial and Pogba both also got on the scoresheet and for any Irish fans tuned in they will have noticed one player in particular from West Ham. Declan Rice is only 18-years-old, born in 1999 (feel old?) and came on against the biggest club in football. For how poor West Ham was there was universal praise for Rice amongst Irish and West Ham fans alike. https://twitter.com/Silirrion/status/896770872966471681 https://twitter.com/Amr_Saeed_92/status/896770996597870592 https://twitter.com/rwaltonangelo/status/896771513159790593 https://twitter.com/clem132/status/896772067768619008 https://twitter.com/Antonio_Kante/status/896782069468020736