Pick your West Ham team from any era

Submitted by mcbikeman on Sat, 23 Nov 2024 - 09:24

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Dreary Sat morning so for bit of fun i thought this will give you something to think about.. And i have already changed it several times already! a work in process as they say. and players picked are when they were in there prime.

GK...Parkes
RB...Stewart
CB...Martin
CB...Ogbonna
LB...Dicks
RW...Ward
DM...Foe
AM...Payet
LW...Devonshire
ST...Cottee
ST...Di-Canio

Subs

Ludo/Dawson/Collins/Potts/Cresswell/Bonds/Brooking/Noble/Kudus/Bowen/McAvennie

I would be happy if we lined up against any with this squad but look forward to hearing and seeing your squads and the difficulty it gives you in fitting players in to start and those on the bench.

1 Parkes

1 Parkes
2 Stewart
3 Dicks
4 Bonds
5 Martin
6 Moore
7 MacAvennie
8. Noble
9 Cottee
10 Brooking
11 Devonshire

Playing 4-4-2 - Central 4 being Devonshire, Noble, Bonds, Brooking.

Subs Ludo, Di Canio, Lampard Snr, Pike, Ward, Parris, Kudus, T Taylor, B Jennings, Bowen.

Saved yourself there boogers

with the SNR after Lampard lol and jeez my bad but i left out Cross and Pop Robson and given our dearth of strikers those two have to be musts surely

David Cross the original

David Cross the original psycho. Used to love singing that. I had no idea why he was called that and still don't..

I need shooting

and checking for Alzheimers HTF could i miss Bobby Moore....i sincerely apologise to all West Ham fans for that.

Even worse

You preferred Ogbonna to him.

Ogbonna

Wildly underrated by many and as i mentioned i had a total brain melt and forgot about Bobby which is unforgiveable i know

Oh, don't get me wrong

I had a lot of time for Oggie. But then Rio Ferdinand, Tony Gale, Slaven Bilic or Winston Reid must surely edge in front? I even had fond memories of Tommy Taylor and Marc Rieper too.

Had Tommy Taylor as a sub,

Had Tommy Taylor as a sub, the guy was a colossus..

GK: Fabianski

GK: Fabianski
RB: Stewart
LB: Dicks
CB: Bonds
CB: Moore
DM: Rice
RW: Bowen
AM: Brooking
LW: Devonshire
ST: Di Canio
ST: Cottee

Subs: Parkes, Martin, R. Ferdinand, Cross, McAvennie, Payet, Tevez, Noble, Ashton

Impossible.

Me personally, I only have one position where I only have one player for it and not really an argument for any player who should be there in his place. Goalkeeper I wouldn't separate between Phil or Ludo. As for Billy Bonds do I put him at RB over Tonker or RH over Martin Peters? And don't even start me off on strikers. Hurst, Greaves, Pop Robson, Keith Robson, Cross, Kitson, Hartson, Jennings, Cottee, MacAvrenie. As I say, impossible.