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5 unusual facts about Upton Park


Geoff Pike

He played for the Upton Park club for twelve years, gaining an FA Cup winners medal in 1980, a League Cup runners-up medal in 1981 and promotion back to the top tier, after finishing as Division Two champions in 1980–81.

Marco Gabbiadini

The following season would prove to be Gabbiadini's last on Wearside after starting the season on fine form scoring 5 goals in 9 appearances, including a spectacular six minute hat-trick against Charlton Athletic at Upton Park on 17 September 1991.

Turlin Moor

The two railway bridges at the end of the estate on Blandford Road, form the meeting point between Hamworthy, Turlin Moor and Upton Park.

Upton Park, London

Upton Park F.C was founded in 1866, and is believed to have folded for the second and last time around 1911, while West Ham United, an unrelated organisation, were founded as Thames Ironworks F.C. in 1895, before reforming as West Ham in 1900, playing their first games at Upton Park, the Boleyn Ground, from 1904.

An unrelated football club of the area, Upton Park FC, were early pioneers in the game, and represented Great Britain at the 1900 Summer Olympics football tournament, where they won the gold medal.


Brian Dear

His second spell at Upton Park was short-lived and Dear featured in only four games during the 1970–71 season.

Dave Swindlehurst

A good record for Derby saw John Lyall take Swindlehurst to Upton Park for £160,000 in March 1983, but injuries hampered his chances of regular first-team football.

Davina McCall

With the help of historians Jean-Marc Berliere and Simon Kitson, McCall learned that she is the great-granddaughter of onetime Prefect of Police Célestin Hennion (1862–1915), and the great great great-granddaughter, on her father's side, of James Thomas Bedborough (1787–1860), a stonemason, councillor, Mayor, property developer and entrepreneur, who worked on Windsor Castle and Upton Park in Slough.

Ernie Gregory

Born in Stratford, London, Gregory played for West Ham Boys, and was noticed by Charlie Paynter during an English Trophy Final against Preston North End at Upton Park.

Ricardo Vaz Tê

They won the first leg at the Cardiff City Stadium 2-0 and the second leg 3-0 at the Upton Park, with Vaz Tê scoring the second goal of the second game.


see also

1974–75 West Ham United F.C. season

West Ham won the FA Cup Final for the second time, recording a 2-0 result against a Fulham side captained by former Upton Park legend Bobby Moore.

Boleyn

Boleyn Ground in London, often also known as Upton Park, the football stadium of West Ham United F.C.