West Ham through the years: Trevor Morley

In this part we are going to focus on former West Ham striker Trevor Morley. The Nottingham-born player started his league career at Northampton before moving-on to Manchester City in 1988.After just one season at Maine Road he and Ian Bishop arrived at Upton Park as part of the deal that took West Ham winger Mark Ward in the opposite direction and the marksman went-on to enjoy six excellent years with the Hammers scoring 57 goals from 178 appearances. In this part we will focus on two games involving 1994’s “Hammer of the year”

December 1993

West Ham 3-2 Coventry City

Breaker 11 Darby (2)

Butler 40

Morley 59 (pen)

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This pre-Christmas victory moved West Ham into the top 10 of the Premiership table for the first time this season. The Hammers started strongly and took the lead when Peter Butler sent Tim Breaker through to fire home his first of the campaign. Then on 40 minutes Butler played one-twos with both Mike Marsh and Trevor Morley before firing-in a superb shot the found the net via the post. Coventry pulled it back to 2-1 just 60 seconds later through Julian Darby,but West Ham regained their two-goal cushion when Morley confidently drilled home from the penalty spot after the lively Marsh was sent tumbling in the box. The visitors got another one back through Darby again and could also have had a penalty themselves but their protests were waved away by the referee. Late-on in this topsy-turvy encounter Marsh was denied a wonder-goal when he beat four defenders only to be denied at point-blank range by City keeper Steve Ogrizovic as the Hammers held-on for victory.

April 1994

Tottenham Hotspur 1-4 West Ham

Sheringham Jones 38

Morley 60 (Pen),73

Marsh 80

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West Ham moved-up to 13^th in the table after this fantastic Bank Holiday Monday victory at White Hart Lane. They opened the scoring when Ian Bishop ran the length of the field and when his pass found striker Steve Jones he impressively fired home from eight yards. Trevor Morley made it 2-0 when he was clattered in the area by Gary Mabutt he jumped up to convert the resulting penalty himself. Spurs got one back from the spot themselves but the Hammers made the game safe when Morley took advantage of a dreadful back-pass in the home side’s rearguard to advance on goal and fire home from close-range.West Ham’s biggest league win of the season was wrapped-up late-on when Mathew Holmes crossed from the left for Mike Marsh to convert with a low strike from five yards out and give the visitors a superb victory.