West Ham Utd Legends volume 1 DVD.

West Ham Utd Legends volume 1 DVD.

West Ham United are a club with a rich heritage of quality players whose names still excite today's supporters whenever they are mentioned.

West Ham Legends is an ILC Sport's tribute series to some of the greats from West Ham's history, most of their efforts being seen on DVD and video for the very first time in this format. This first volume features players whose careers span the decades of success from the late sixties through to the nineties.

Sir Trevor Brooking, England midfield supreme and twice recent caretaker manager, was one of the most skilful players to ever put on a West Ham shirt. Booked only four times in his career and never sent off, he set standards of professionalism that are rarely seen in today's game.

Tony Cottee, in two spells with the club in the eighties and nineties, scored 145 goals and was feared by all English defences in the top flight. He featured in a partnership with Frank McAvennie in the 1985-86 season that realised 54 goals and saw West Ham finish third in the top flight, just four points from what would have been their first ever championship.

Julian Dicks, pugnacious and determined captain of West Ham in the early nineties, took no prisoners and had one of the most vicious left feet that ever struck a ball for West Ham, hitting the back of the net with thirty-five penalties and sixty-three goals overall in his West Ham career.

Ludek Miklosko was a Czechoslovakian international goalkeeper and one of the club's first big European signings, and he kept goal throughout the majority of the nineties, vitally strengthening West Ham's defence in its most vulnerable position. He has since become the first team goalkeeping coach at the club.

John Hartson came to West Ham in 1997 with the club facing the threat of relegation, and immediately forged a dynamic scoring partnership with Paul Kitson, scoring 24 goals in 1997-98, his first full season, adding aerial power to the team that the Hammers hadn't seen since the days of Geoff Hurst. Although he only ever really enjoyed one great season at the club, it was a year of great achievement, and one that finally put Harry Redknapp's West Ham United team back on the footballing map.