Lucas Neill enjoyed a winning return to Ewood Park on Saturday when he came up against former club Blackburn Rovers and the Australian international revelled in the Hammers' post-match jubilation.
"It's a long time since the boys have tasted victory, so it was a very happy dressing room at the end," he said.
"Overall I thought we deserved it. The winning goal was obviously controversial, but the luck has been well and truly against us this season, so it was nice to be on the right side of it for once."
Despite the 2-1 win, the Hammers' first away victory of the season, it wasn't quite the perfect return for Lucas, who was subjected to harsh treatment from the home crowd.
"It was strange going back to Blackburn," he admitted. "I spent five and a half years at the club and I thought the reception I got was quite disgusting to be honest.
"For a player who committed himself for all of that time, never complained, never missed training, never missed games and gave everything I had, I was really shocked and quite disappointed.
"I still have a fantastic relationship with all the players, staff and management at Blackburn and they will be friends of mine for a long time, it's just unfortunate that the fans don't see it that way."
With eight games left, Lucas believes Premiership survival is still within the Hammers' grasp.
"Of course survival is on, it's never been off for me - I've always believe it can be done," he said. "Every day I've come in to training saying 'we've still got 27 points to play for' and now it's 24.
"We've got to believe - we believed against Tottenham and were two minutes away from getting the points, and against Blackburn we ground out a result and got the points we deserved.
"Next we face Middlesbrough at home - a big game. The crowd will be behind us and, if we win that, the momentum will hopefully carry on. We've just got to take it game by game and fight for our lives in every single one.
"With 35,000 West Ham fans backing us at Upton Park, and
four or five thousand travelling with us to the away games,
we've always got a chance."