Autographs of Billy Bonds
William Arthur Bonds MBE (born 17 September 1946) is a former professional footballer and manager, who is most often associated with West Ham United with whom he spent 27 years as player and manager. He played 799 first-team games for West Ham in a career spanning 21 seasons.
Born in Woolwich, south-east London, Bonds grew up in nearby Eltham, where he played for a Sunday boys' team, Moatbridge, and Kent Schoolboys and joined the groundstaff at Charlton Athletic after leaving school at 15. He played in the youth and A team and occasionally in the reserves before joining the playing staff shortly before his 18th birthday in September 1964.
Bonds made his League debut for Charlton against Northampton Town in February 1965 and became a regular in the first team, going on to make 95 League appearances, scoring one goal, before being signed by Ron Greenwood for West Ham United for a fee of £50,000 in May 1967. He made his first appearance for West Ham in a testimonial match for Ken Brown in the same month and made his League debut against Sheffield Wednesday in the opening game of the 1967–68 season. He was ever-present in the 1968–69 and 1969–70 seasons and played 124 consecutive league games until injury ended his run of appearances in October 1970.\nBonds played his first three seasons as a right-back before Greenwood switched him to midfield in the 1970–71 season where he counterbalanced the skills of Trevor Brooking. Bonds was at his peak in the early 1970s, helping West Ham to the semi-final of the Football League Cup in the 1971–72 season, where they lost to Stoke City after a second replay, and topping the scorers list at West Ham in the 1973–74 season with 13 goals, including a hat-trick against Chelsea. After the departure of Bobby Moore in March 1974, Bonds was appointed to the captaincy and led the club to an FA Cup final victory over Fulham in 1975 and to the final of the 1976 European Cup Winners' Cup despite a groin injury that interrupted the latter half of the 1974–75 season and part of the 1975–76 season. Greenwood moved Bonds from midfield to the back four as centre-half alongside Tommy Taylor shortly before the end of the 1976–77 season, where he was able to come out from defence with the ball.
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Traded items with a signature of Billy Bonds
The most expensive item with a signature of Billy Bonds (West Ham Signed Billy Bonds split Shirt 75/80) was sold in October 2025 for £363.68 while the cheapest item (Billy Bonds XI v Bromley Sports Charity Football Programme 1996 (autographed)) found a new owner for £0.50 in September 2014. The month with the most items sold (61) was January 2026 with an average selling price of £22.89 for an autographed item of Billy Bonds. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in July 2024 with £249.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was April 2014. In average, an autographed item from Billy Bonds is worth £9.94.
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Latest News about Billy Bonds
Billy Bonds believes Sam Allardyce will end the West Ham slump (10/12/2013): West Ham great Billy Bonds believes there is no need for the club to panic just yet despite the team’s poor run of form.Billy Bonds blasts Harry Redknapp over new book (22/10/2013): Billy Bonds has broken his 19-year silence on his acrimonious fall out with Harry Redknapp, sensationally branding his former West Ham colleague a 'liar'. 
Harry Redknapp book: I'd swap West Ham years to have Billy Bonds as a mate (09/10/2013): HARRY REDKNAPP: It is 20 years since Billy Bonds and I last spoke; the break-up of our friendship still hurts. I loved him and there is no way on earth I would have hurt him.
