LEGEND LAMPARD: AFTER 41 LONG YEARS WE FINALLY LOOK LIKE WINNERS AGAIN

EXCLUSIVE BY TONY BANKS FRANK LAMPARD SNR was one of the last Hammers to win a trophy and he believes David Moyes now has a team that can put an end to that 41-year drought.

Lampard was in the then second division when West Ham shocked top-flight Arsenal to lift the FA Cup at Wembley in 1980.

Another club legend, Trevor Brooking (with Lampard, right and above), scored the winner that day with a diving header, and it was the last proper pot the club lifted – apart from the 1999 Intertoto Cup – though there have been several relegations and promotions since then.

But Lampard, 73, reckons Moyes has now finally got West Ham on the brink of something special.

Moyes led the east Londoners to a sixthplace finish last year earning them a European campaign this term and, on Wednesday night, a penalty shootout win over Manchester City put the Hammers into the Carabao Cup quarterfinals.

Lampard, who played 660 games for the club between 1967 and 1985, said: “This West Ham team are good enough to stay in the top four – I really believe that. They are fourth in the table now, they finished sixth last year. Once you get to that level, doors open.

“This team can go on and do something.

“You can see Moyes has done his homework. When this team have got the ball, they are good – but as soon as they lose it, they get organised.

“You need people who are going to be disciplined and work, and Moyes has it. They have depth in the squad. The players have all got to play for their places, and if they don’t play well, someone else comes in.

“If you start winning games, you get a feeling before kick off of, ‘We are going to win this one’ – and this team are getting that.”

Lampard believes that now his beloved Hammers are in the last eight of the EFL Cup, with several big guns already out, glory could be beckoning. He said: “Winning something is what makes it. If they go and win a cup final, that goes down in the history books. It does not matter how you win it. When you are older, you can look back on that.

“I played more than 600 games for West Ham. But the one that everyone always talks to me about, even now, is when I scored the winner in the semi-final replay that year when we beat Everton.”

That diving header at Elland Road (below) is one of West Ham’s most treasured goals – made even more memorable by Lampard famously dancing round the corner flag in celebration.

He added: “In the final, we scored early at Wembley and I was worried – I thought we had scored too soon!

“Arsenal were in the first division and strong favourites. But we wore them out.

“This current squad is as good as the club have had in recent years. Moyes is a calm character, a student of the game.

“Maybe they should not have let him leave in 2018. It is a fact that now they are doing better. No one can argue with that.”