Mark Noble has handed the credit for the Hammers success to the two Davids.
The captain believes i’s their philosophy that has revolutionised the club from a circus into a top four challenging outfit.
On the eve of his Irons testimonoal Nobes declared: “The key word is stability. In a way, the club was run like a circus in some stages over the last ten or 20 years.
“They have brought in good players and put in money and that was what was needed. That is why the club is moving the way it is.
“We have had a tough ten years. We had the different people in charge, five or six different managers.
“Now it seems like the chairman and Karren Brady have done a great job of settling the club down – running it properly and that gives you a platform from which to move on, to progress.”
“They have brought in a great manager and, together, they have brought in great players. That is the way it should be done.”
He had his own chances to leave – to Newcastle and Everton – when we were relegated from the Premier League in 2011.
But he stayed loyal and is now reaping the benefits of that commitment under Slaven Bilic and his team declaring: The boss has a really good way about him,” said Noble. “ It is the way he explains things.
“With West Ham fans, they hold on to a tradition. The boss has played at the club, he knows what they are like and he was a fans’ favourite here. He knows what it means to them. He knows the club inside out.
“There are still people working at West Ham from when he was a player. It really is just like one big family.”
Yes. On the eve of mark nobles testimonial I can truly say he has been an inspirational captain. I remind you of the quote by Theodora Roosevelt, who wasn’t British but who did write a good quote.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Love his words but this time last year he was a Hippo fan and saying BFS should stay and get another contract,
I personally will for give you Mark as you had to protect your self in case madness had happened and Hippo had stayed,
Hope you have the best day tomorrow you deserve it,and it was an insult to you yesterday when Henderson again was given another England cap,not since C Palmer received a cap did a unskilled player ever put on our country’s shirt,
Please never say we are interested in a player of his ability
We release players with more ability then he could dream of having
Fantastic quote from Nobes, he truly is “Mr West Ham”, can’t bear even the thought of him in an Everton or Newcy strip