Thanks to the wacky people at the DVLA Personalised Registrations team, Biglorryblog can reveal that West Ham United are being hotly tipped to knock London rivals Arsenal off the top of the Premier League of personalised registrations….errr…whuh?

It seems that auctioneers for DVLA Personalised Registrations are bracing themselves for a bidding frenzy as they put the number plate WE57 HAM under the hammer later this month. And they believe interest in the plate will be so great it could even sell for more than the hottest football personal registration auctioned to date – AR53 NAL – which went for a whopping £36,000 in 2004.

Currently, the league table of top football plates, reads as is shown in the picture above.

Damian Lawson, marketing manager for DVLA Personalised Registrations tells BLB: ‘We get huge amounts of interest whenever we release football-related registration numbers for auction, but we’re particularly excited by this one."

‘We know what a large and passionate support there is for West Ham and because the number reads so well we think it stands a real chance of topping the table of football plates.’

The auction of WE57 HAM will be the climax of a three-day sale of 1,500 highly-desirable numbers by DVLA Personalised Registrations at Down Hall Hotel in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, from October 24 to 26. So obviously you’ll be there along with BLB and details of all the registration numbers on sale and how to bid at the auction can be found at this link