Irons Through The Ages - A Brief History of West Ham Utd
Irons Through the Ages is a ten-episode history of West Ham United, told from the very beginning.
From a shipyard on the Thames in 1895 to Prague in 2023. Bobby Moore and the 1966 World Cup. Clyde Best. The 1980 FA Cup. Paolo Di Canio. The farewell to Upton Park. And Jarrod Bowen's ninetieth-minute winner that ended a fifty-eight-year wait for a European trophy.
128 years. One club.
Come on you Irons.
Episodes
6 episodes
Episode 6 : The Golden Generation (1958 to 1966)
The story of West Ham's greatest era. Ron Greenwood is appointed manager in 1961, Bobby Moore is made club captain at twenty-one, and within three years West Ham win the FA Cup. The following season they win a European trophy. And on...
Episode 4 : The Fall and the Rise (1930 - 1940)
The 1930s bring rupture and renewal. West Ham are relegated from the First Division in 1932 after conceding 107 goals, and the club's long-serving manager Syd King dies in tragic circumstances the following year. Under new manager Charlie Paynt...
Episode 5 : The Long Road Back (1940 - 1958)
After the war, West Ham spend fifteen years in the Second Division — but these are not wasted years. In the cafés and training grounds of East London, a group of players and coaches are quietly developing football ideas that will transform the ...
Episode 3 : The White Horse Final (1919 - 1930)
West Ham enter the Football League for the first time in 1919 and, within four years, find themselves in an FA Cup Final at the brand new Wembley Stadium — the famous White Horse Final, played in front of an estimated 200,000 people. They lose ...
Episode 2 : West Ham United is Born (1900 - 1919)
West Ham United FC is officially incorporated on 5 July 1900. This episode covers the early years of the new club: how they came to wear claret and blue, the move to the Boleyn Ground in Upton Park in 1904, and the long managerial reign of Syd ...
Episode 1 : Thames Ironworks - The Birth of the Hammers (1895–1900)
Episode 1: Thames Ironworks — The Birth of the Hammers (1895–1900)Before there was West Ham United, there was a shipyard. In June 1895, workers at Thames Ironworks — one of Britain's largest shipbuilders — formed a football club o...