January 2014 European Cup Winners' Cup: Home: 1–4 v Dinamo Tbilisi (quarter final first leg) (2–4 aggregate scoreline), 4 March 1981 Away: 2–4 v FC Den Haag (quarter final first leg) (5–5 aggregate scoreline, West Ham won on away goals), 3 March 1976 Neutral: 2–4 v Anderlecht (Final), 5 May 1976 UEFA Cup: Home: 0–1 v Palermo (round one first leg), 14 September 2006 Away: 0–3 v Palermo (round one second leg), 28 September 2006 Club league highs and lows Club goal records Most league goals in a season: 101, Division Two (1957–58) Top league scorer in a season: Vic Watson (42) Div. One (1929–30) Top scorer in a season: Vic Watson (50) Div. One (1929–30) Most goals in one match: Vic Watson (6) v Leeds United (h) 9 February 1929 Geoff Hurst (6) v Sunderland (h) 19 October 1968 Follow link to Official West Ham United Records Page Player records In popular culture In a Monty Python sketch four communist thinkers and leaders appear on a news show World Forum, where they are asked football questions. Karl Marx fails to identify the nickname "the Hammers" as the nickname for West Ham. Steve Harris, leader of heavy metal band Iron Maiden, is a West Ham fan and was once scouted by the club. He has long displayed its logo on his Fender Precision bass guitar. The band and club have also collaborated on some merchandise, such as special edition shirts. For the IT Crowd episode "Are We Not Men" Roy pretends to enjoy football and claims to be a follower of West Ham, thinking he made the team up. Instead, it turns out everyone at the table is a supporter and they invite him to a match. In the final episode of season two of Ted Lasso, "Inverting the Pyramid of Success", former Richmond owner Rupert Mannion buys West Ham and installs Richmond's former kitman-turned-coach, Nate Shelley, as the head coach. In the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part and its follow-on and spin-off series Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health the character Alf Garnett's biggest passion in life was his local football team West Ham United. The action film Final Score, a 2018 release starring Dave Bautista and Pierce Brosnan, was filmed at the club's former Upton Park stadium shortly before its demolition. It concerns a takeover of the venue during a fictional European cup game