Greatest Escape
Greatest Escape As a football fan, there are those seasons which remain indelibly inscribed in the memory. The 2006/07 season remains one of those for fans of West Ham United. Simply unforgettable.…
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Greatest Escape
As a football fan, there are those seasons which remain indelibly inscribed in the memory. The 2006/07 season remains one of those for fans of West Ham United. Simply unforgettable.
Roll forward to the business end, and with nine matches left to play the Hammers looked doomed. A season that began with such promise: Alan Pardew signed two genuine world-class players ahead of the kick-off, but little did the Argentinian pair of Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano know they joined a season-long relegation battle. Seven wins from those nine made it arguably the greatest escape in English top-flight history.
A season so memorable for all the wrong reasons: going two months without a goal; 11 games without a win; snatching defeat from the jaws of victory against your biggest rivals. Then having survived, on the final day by winning at Old Trafford, extra-time in the courts, with the rest of