West Ham United x Switzerland | Mountains of goals

Just three more years passed before the Irons were back in the mountains, this time for a five-game visit. West Ham did not have things all their own way this time, drawing 2-2 in Bern and losing 3-1 to the Swiss national team in Zürich and 1-0 in St Gallen, but the Londoners did thrash Kreuzlingen and Lucerne by identical 9-2 scorelines.

Joe Musgrave scored just two competitive goals in 40 appearances for West Ham, but he was prolific in Switzerland, scoring twice at Kreuzlingen and then six times at Lucerne and ten goals on the tour in total.

The Hammers got their own back on the Swiss national team in May 1936, winning 1-0 in Zürich thanks to Len Goulden’s strike, and also scored victories over Kreuzlingen (2-0) and Aarau (4-2), with Jimmy Ruffell on target in both games, but Lausanne proved too strong, defeating their English visitors 1-0.

West Ham celebrated the end of the Second World War with yet another trip to Switzerland in May 1946, when they went unbeaten in seven matches, scoring 33 goals and conceding just seven, including nine in a 9-1 win in Schaffhausen, with Archie Macaulay helping himself to a hat-trick in front of 4,500 spectators.

Servette became the first Swiss visitors to east London when they formed the opposition for a floodlit friendly at the Boleyn Ground on 6 April 1954. A crowd of 20,000 saw Doug Arnott score a hat-trick and Jim Barrett and John Dick also find the net in a 5-1 win.