Two championship teams officially more entertaining than West Ham in the Premier League era

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It’s official, Newcastle United and Aston Villa have both been more entertaining than West Ham United in the Premier League era.

West Ham’s Manuel Lanzini celebrates with Dimitri Payet

West Ham may be famous for being the great entertainers but they sit right in midtable when it comes to the Premier League era.

And to make matters worse two clubs currently plying their trade in the Championship, have scored more goals than them in the English top flight since the induction of the Premier League in 1992/93.

The East Londoners have 928 goals to take 10th place on the 20-team list.

Dion Dublin scoring for Aston Villa

That’s one place and 189 goals behind the claret and blue club from whom they get their colours Aston Villa who have scored 1,117 times in the Premier League.

Perhaps more surprisingly – given that Villa until this season had never been relegated from the Premier League – Newcastle sit in seventh place, with 1,168 goals.

Newcastle’s David Ginola days

All three are some way off the leaders Manchester United who have notched an impressive 1,817 goals in the last 25 years.

Fitting then that their current striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored the 25,000th before the international break.

The Hammers are not doing their tally and chances of catching the Magpies and Villa up a great deal of good this season either.

Slaven Bilic’s side currently sit 17th in the table, one point and one place off the relegation zone.

They are averaging only a goal per game so far this term with 11 from the first 11 matches and will need to better last season’s total of 65 to break the 1,000 goals barrier this campaign.

Not one of Bilic’s strikers has scored this season 17 games in.

The Boys of 86 were spearheaded by the freescoring Tony Cottee and Frank Macavennie

The club’s Boys of 86 side is widely considered one of the best Hammers teams of all time and they scored 74 goals on their way to a third place finish – missing out on the title by five points.

Last season’s team secured the best ever points return in the Premier League era, finishing seventh.

But the highest Premier League finish came under Harry Redknapp whose team including the likes of Paolo Di Canio finished fifth in 1998/99 scoring 46 goals.