They’ve also done well at home in 2023/24, being beaten only by Liverpool and Manchester City thus far.
East Londoners have long been known as the capital’s’sleeping giant,’ albeit that is no longer a title that would be applied to them today.
Last season’s Europa Conference League title lifted the
m up a notch, and let us not forget that the Hammers reached
the Europa League semi-finals the previous season.
Moyes’ side achieved an impressive record in European football’s secondar
y tournament with their 2-1 win over Freiburg on Wednesday night, which has stood since the early 1970s and will undoubtedly take some time to improve.
Not to mention that the record could yet be broken.
According to RTE, the record in question is the most games unbeaten for an English team in European play, which was shared by Don Revie’s Leeds squad in the late 1960s and Bill Nicholson’s Tottenham side in the early 1970s.
Both of those fantastic teams had gone 16 games unbeaten, but West Ham currently has the record, which stands at 17… and counting.
It should also be noted that Moyes’ contract expires in the summer, so the Hammers’ board need act quickly if they wish to keep him.
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