Moore Than Just A Podcast presenter Nigel Kahn interviews 1964 FA Cup medal winner Eddie Bovington who made 184 appearances for West Ham. The 76-year-old joined the West Ham youth team in the late fifties as a groundsman and played in the Hammers Academy alongside Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst. The podcast interview tracks his full West Ham career under Ted Fenton and Ron Greenwood, the later of which he says he never got on with. Eddie left West Ham in 1968 and hung up his boots at just 28 years after failing to secure another club.
You can listen to the fascinating full 40-minute interview at www.moorethanjustapodcast.co.uk Also available on ITunes Player.FM and TuneIn
Nice interview – I remember seeing him in the ‘B’ Team – Burnett, Burkett, Brabrook, Boyce and the others. A hardwoking tough nut.
It was interesting about Ron Greenwood, he’s almost revered for his ‘pure’ football approach but to hear that he was no good at the Man Management stuff and was at loggerheads with the players a lot of the time. I know his treatment of Bobby Moore was very harsh.
He’s right about John Cushley and Bobby Ferguson, definitely signing them were both rickets!