With Avram Grant well and truly settling into his role as the latest in a long list of West Ham Managers, we take a look back at the strike rate of his predecessors and just what Avram need to do to become known as a success.

It’s not a huge task ahead of him.

Zola has been our worse performing Manager in history with his Win Ratio falling to a dismal 28.75%. No other Manager has stooped below the 30% mark, however Glenn Roeder wasn’t too far off it with 31.4%.

Our most successful Manager, Billy Bonds, maintained a success rate of 43.61% over a period of 227 games, where as our longest serving manager, John Lyall, maintained a healthy win strike rate of 39.12%.

And what of the current Tottenham Hotspurs Manager Harry Redknapp? He managed 37% over his 327 games in charge of the Hammers….. that’s 2.44% worse than Alan Curbishley (39.44%).

Below are two graphs showing the success rate of the West Ham Managers. We’ve flipped the x and y axis just to confuse and disorient you as well. We see the total number of Games as Manager, with the Win Loss Draw numbers and finally the Win %.

Here is the table of data taken from Wikipedia which provided that basis of the above graphs.

	Name	Games	Wins	Draw	Loss	Win %
1	Gianfranco Zola	80	23	21	36	28.75
2	Alan Curbishley	71	28	14	29	39.44
3	Alan Pardew	163	67	38	58	41.1
4	Glenn Roeder	86	27	23	36	31.4
5	Harry Redknapp	327	121	85	121	37
6	Billy Bonds	227	99	61	67	43.61
7	Lou Macari	38	14	12	12	36.84
8	John Lyall	708	277	176	255	39.12
9	Ron Greenwood	613	215	165	233	35.07
10	Ted Fenton	483	192	107	184	39.75
11	Charlie Paynter	480	198	116	166	41.25
12	Syd King	638	248	146	244	38.87