Picture special: Amid the sleaze and excess West Ham's Christmas party gives a reminder of more innocent times

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United players Sammy McIlroy, Willie Morgan, Stuart Pearson, Gerry Daly and Lou Macari knew how to party - not a WAG in sight and if you mentioned shots they'd have thought rifles.

Good sports: Matthew Upson (left) dresses like a rugby player including protective headgear while move over Maria Sharapova as James Collin stands behind him as a female tennis star and is that Swedish star Freddie Ljungberg we spy in full cricket gear?

West Ham still party like that, as Matthew Upson (rugby), James Collins (women's, er... no, sorry, we give up), Freddie Ljungberg (cricket) and Robert Green (skiing) showed at London's Sports Cafe this week.

Thanks, Hammers, it's just like Christmas in the Seventies... only without the flares.

United players Sammy McIlroy, Willie Morgan, Stuart Pearson, Gerry Daly and Lou Macari

Pole dancing: West Ham goalkeeper Robert Green looks ready for a bit of apres ski in his skier's grey outfit and that's snow joke

Horsing around: Lee Bowyer as a jockey at West Ham players' Christmas party