Thursday 29 October 2015 18:44, UK
West Ham joint-chairman David Sullivan is dreaming of winning the double this season following the team's bright start in the Premier League.
The Hammers are third in the table under new manager Slaven Bilic after 10 games, just two points off the top.
Although the team crashed out of the Europa League and the League Cup already, Sullivan reckons it is wrong to suggest a club of West Ham's stature should not have ambitions of winning the league and FA Cup.
"We're very, very optimistic. I'm not talking it down. I want to talk it up. I believe it's achievable," Sullivan told the club's official website.
"It's a big myth. I mean look at what's gone wrong with Chelsea - that looked an impossibility - so why shouldn't the opposite happen to us?
"In football, we're here to dream. At the start of the season we were in four competitions and the aim was to win those four.
"Now we're down to two - we've got the big double left - and it's very, very unlikely but not impossible."
West Ham have many objectives for the future with the club moving into London's Olympic Stadium next season.
Taking Champions League football to that arena remains a target but, given current form, Sullivan thinks it could be possible from next year.
Sullivan said: "If you'd asked at the start of the season I would have said it's impossible this year. That said and done, it's not impossible this season. Forget dreaming in the future.
"The unfortunate thing is that if you finish fourth you have to play a qualifying game - and no doubt we'd get a real toughie - like the fourth best team in Spain or Italy.
"Realistically, I'd love fourth now and we'd take our chances. I know it's unlikely, but it really is possible. One more win and we'd be top of the table, looking down!
"I'm not sure how clever that would be as it'd really put pressure on people - it's not bad to be two off the lead."
