Saturday 2 June 2012

Ten Nil



West Ham's 10-0 League Cup win over Bury in 1983 this was the 2nd leg of a 2nd Round tie, we had won 2-1 away but none of us who were there probably expected a score like this.
As it goes it wasn't really the greatest game except for the score, Bury were terrible and it seems hard to believe we signed their central defender Paul Hilton not long after? although he did have some good games for us over the next few years including playing as a makeshift striker.
Tony Cottee scored four, Alan Devonshire got two, Trevor Brooking hit two (but one was given as an own goal), Alvin Martin and the obligatory Ray Stewart penalty made up the scorers.
Dave Swindlehurst who was our centre forward at the time failed to score, he never totally impressed in the couple of years he was there, although he did get about 15 goals in this season.

The 1983-4 season started well and we led the league early on and were top 3 for most of the season, but a disastrous run of only 2 wins in the final third of the season saw us slip to 9th :(

The commentary is very quiet so you'll need to turn the speakers up, and he is a bit annoying pronouncing Cottee as Coaty, and calling Billy Bonds Bill.

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