West Ham Season 1985 1986

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This season was West Ham United’s most successful league season and their highest ever finish in the top flight. They would have finished as runners up, only to be pipped to second place by Everton in a 3-1 defeat at Goodison Park on the final game of the season.

The 1985/86 season is the first that is mentioned by any Hammers fan over the age of 45 and they will take great delight in telling you about watching the likes of Tony Cottee and Frank McAvennie firing in goals for fun over that season. The pair scored 46 of West Ham’s 74 league goals between them.It was McAvennie’s first season at Upton Park, after joining from Scottish side St Mirren in the summer. The Scottish striker had proved he could find the back of the net in the Scottish Premier League, scoring 48 goals in 135 appearances and winning the SFA Young Player of the Year Award in 1981/82.

As well as McAvennie, John Lyall also brought in Oldham Athletic’s Mark Ward who would be an ever-present in the right winger position throughout the entire 1986/86 season.

Ward was brought in to replace Paul Allen, who left for Spurs early in the pre-season. Allen had played for the Hammers in the FA Cup winning side in 1980 and in doing so became the youngest player to play in an FA Cup Final in the process. Allen joined their London neighbours for an initial fee of £400,000, rising to £450,000 based on appearances.

The most notable departure from Upton Park was 37 year old Frank Lampard, who after 17 years in the West Ham first team, dropped down to the Fourth Division to join Southend United. Lampard’s former team mate Bobby Moore was the manager at Roots Hall and must have been the reason he chose the Essex club.