Football is becoming more and more about money by the day, and in turn this is separating the bigger clubs from smaller clubs more and more too. The size of a club used to be entirely based on success and silverware, whereas no it is becoming too easy to buy success and with takeovers happening left, right and centre, there are many new additions to the top clubs in the world. What then, separates these clubs from one another? The answer is of course their history, and no other club has a history quite like West Ham United. Our biggest achievement is of course successfully "winning" the World Cup in 1966. I jest, but the actuality of the situation is that Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst; three of West Ham's greatest players at the time; played a major part in securing England's only World Cup triumph. Since then, West Ham, whilst rarely being a traditionally successful club, have produced some of the greatest English players of all time. West Ham are also known for their signature style of play, a style which has became known to fans as "the West Ham way". This began with Ron Greenwood's West Ham team of the 1960s, a team which produced the World Cup winning trio and achieved success and fame as a team that played great to watch football. Greenwood's ideologies centred around skill and good attacking football rather than just winning games. Our history and traditions have made West Ham a very special club and because of this, many high profile players have chosen to play their careers as a Hammer despite bigger offers.
