WEST Ham manager Gianfranco Zola has called on his side to emulate Everton and break into the Premier League’s big-four.
The Toffees - who visit Upton Park tomorrow - were the last team to break the monopoly of Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool in 2005.
And Zola wants his Irons team to do the same.
“I like their manager (David Moyes). He did a great job last year and he can be one of the examples we can use,” said the Italian.
“They’re a smaller team who got good results and it would be great for us to emulate them or maybe do even better.”
However, Zola does not want to emulate Moyes’ brand of physical football, instead pledging to play a “spicy” entertaining, passing, attacking style.
“I like to play spicy,” he said.
“We have conceded a lot of goals and in the last few games we were quite solid. But having said that I won’t give up on my idea and I would love to play attacking football.
“Now I won’t change my attitude. The fans have a lot of confidence in us and they are happy with what we’re trying to achieve here."
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