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Exciting new challenge for Hammer

There will surely be nobody within the Hammers fanbase who won’t be wishing club stalwart Winston Reid all the luck in the world .The loyal central defender has joined promotion seeking Brentford on loan after his dreadful injury against Swansea back in 2018.

As a result the 32-year-old hasn’t featured competitively for West Ham since when David Moyes was first in charge at the club.
The Kiwi suffered a serious knee injury and was also knocked unconscious during a loss at Swansea City when the visitors to the Liberty Stadium were thumped 4-1 on 28th Sept 2020.
Now after wo spells on loan in the USA he is back and hoping to make a big impact with the Bees who are following up their play off defeat in good style this time around. They are currently sitting in third place behind Swansea, a wicked irony, and Norwich City as they aim to go one better this term.
Reid is obviously in much better shape than many believed he may be to be joining a crucial promotion scrap and is looking to make a real impact.
And he has been speaking  to the Brentford’s website following his arrival at the club saying: “Listen I’m really happy to be here. I’ll come here, be a part of it, help out where I can and hopefully help to get the club promoted. Obviously the injury that I had took a lot longer time than both myself and the club (West Ham) would have wanted, but that’s part of life and you move forward and I’m happy to be here. 
“It’s going to be nice to come back here (England) and play. Obviously I had to go away for the last year. I enjoyed my time in America, it was with a really good group and club there. I came back and felt re-energised.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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