WHO ARE YA?! WEST HAM UNITED THE CLUB Founded 1895 Colours Claret and blue Nickname The Irons, The Hammers Stadium London Stadium Record Attendance 59,950 v Fulham, 2019 Record Win 10-0 v Bury, 1983 Record Defeat 7-0 v Barnsley, 1919 & Sheffield Wednesday, 1959 Most Appearances Billy Bonds, 799, 1967-88 Most Goals Vic Watson, 326, 1920-35 HOME Honours FA Cup winners, 1964, 1975 & SHIRT 1980; Second Division champions, 1957-58 & 1980-81; European Cup-Winners Cup champions, 1965 FIFA 19 rating **** Moving home is stressful for Can West Ham anyone – especially when the push higher place you’re leaving behind and reach is full of memories! It’s been Europe? a funny three years for West Ham fans after they left Upton Park in , but after a summer freshening up their squad, a good could make the London Stadium really feel like home. THE MANAGER Manuel Pellegrini spent nine years West Ham at Villarreal, Real Madrid and Málaga before heading to Man City in LONDON where he won the Premier League and two League Cups! MASCOT Millwall HAMMERHEAD EST THE BOSS MANUEL PELLEGRINI
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Hurst and Martin Peters were back at track, but with a capacity of , , lots Wembley, this time to win the World more Hammers can watch their team’s Cup with England on home turf! home games now. The Hammers were FA Cup winners again in and . Billy Bonds was the captain for those games – his THE FANS appearances in claret and blue will The club’s anthem is I’m Forever Blowing probably never be beaten! Bubbles, which caught on back in the The club’s best league season was s. The lyrics aren’t very cheerful, , when they finished behind but the fans sing it loud and proud! Liverpool and Everton in an exciting three-team title race. Twenty years later the Reds got the better of them again THE RIVALS when the Londoners were seconds from In the early days, players and fans of winning the FA Cup final before West Ham and Millwall worked for an injury-time Steven Gerrard equaliser. different shipbuilding firms on After three mid-table finishes in the the River Thames and shared a last three years, can the Hammers nail fierce rivalry. Those “Dockers down a European place? Derby” games are rare now – they haven’t met since ! THE STADIUM Between and THE STAR THE HISTORY , the Irons’ home Founded in as Thames Ironworks, was the Boleyn PLAYERS the club became West Ham United in Ground (also New signing Pablo . Having lost to Bolton in the known as Upton Fornals is set to provide a famous “White Horse” FA Cup final of Park, the area of east London spark in the Irons’ midfield. , they got another chance in , it was in). It seated , fans If Jack Wilshere can stay beating Preston with a brilliant and was famous for its noisy injury-free the pair of them comeback. Two years later West Ham atmosphere – but when a bigger will cause problems for team-mates Bobby Moore, Geoff stadium nearby became available any defence! after the Olympics, West Ham’s owners thought it would be an improvement! Some people don’t like the DID YOU KNOW? London Stadium’s athletics West Ham’s old stadium was called the Boleyn Ground because it was built on LEGENDS the former home of Anne Boleyn, one GEOFF HURST of King Henry VIII’s six wives! BOBBY MOORE MARTIN PETERS 35
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