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A shot in time: 'The West Ham way' was born in a car park... Harry Redknapp recalls his time as a West Ham apprentice during Hammers glory years

The wet, glistening concrete of a car park on Upton Park forecourt is not one of the places associated with England's World Cup triumph or West Ham United's successful cup runs in the 1960s, but that was where young lads such as Harry Redknapp watched and played with Bobby Moore and learned something they came to understand as 'the West Ham way'.

The Hammers won the FA Youth Cup in 1963, the FA Cup in 1964, the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1965 — beating 1860 Munich at Wembley in front of 97,000 — and then in 1966 lost the League Cup final to West Bromwich Albion.