Daily WHUFC News - 23rd July 2013

Noble looking for quick response
WHUFC.com
Mark Noble wants West Ham United to bounce back quickly when they face
Hamburg on Tuesday
22.07.2013

Mark Noble says the mentality of West Ham United's pre-season will not be
affected by Saturday's defeat to Mainz. The Hammers lost 4-1 to the German
side, but won their previous four fixtures and Noble wants to bounce back
when they face Hamburg on Tuesday. West Ham play three games in their tour
of Germany and Noble expects them to get stronger with every match they
play. He said: "It was not the best result in the world on Saturday but it
is about getting fit in these games "We came to Germany last year and had a
similar turnout when we'd come on the back of four wins. We're finding our
feet and some of the lads played 75 minutes, so it was a brilliant workout,
exactly what we needed and now we're looking forward to the next one against
Hamburg.
"I was hoping to play the full 90 to get the fitness under my belt, but they
decided to give me 75 minutes and hopefully I'll play my part in the next
couple of games. "These German sides are good. They're technically very good
and drilled really well. It was a good workout for the lads. No-one likes
losing, even in pre-season, but the result won't come into it. "Pre-season
isn't just about getting fit, it's about getting together as a squad,
getting the new signings involved and trying to enjoy it. "We have done and
now it's Hamburg. We want to get some more training under our belts, get
ready for the next game and continue to get ready for the season."


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Jarvis has sights set on more success
WHUFC.com
Matt Jarvis is looking forward to striking up a useful partnership with Andy
Carroll this season
22.07.2013

Matt Jarvis is looking forward to supplying the ammunition for Andy Carroll
this season. Jarvis, who delivered more crosses than any other player in the
Barclays Premier League last term, is well set to play the role of provider
again in his second year as a West Ham United player. The 27-year-old winger
is currently on tour with the Hammers in Germany and he is already looking
forward to another productive campaign. He told West Ham TV exclusively: "I
think I got better and better as the season went on. I enjoyed all of it and
hopefully I can carry on from where I left off. "Hopefully I can supply Andy
with a lot this year. If I can keep putting the crosses in, he'll try to win
everything in the box, so hopefully that will become a good partnership. "I
need to add more goals to my game from last season, and to keep up the
assists."

Sam Allardyce's men are set to take on Hamburger SV on Tuesday in the
northern German town of Flensburg, and Jarvis could well come up against a
former teammate in the shape of Michael Mancienne. The former England U21
international played alongside Jarvis at Wolverhampton Wanderers and joined
Hamburg from Chelsea in 2011. He continued: "Michael was on loan with us at
Wolves and he was a fantastic player for us at the time. I'm sure he'll be
very good for Hamburg. "I actually saw him on holiday but we didn't know we
were playing each other in pre-season at the time, so I might give him a
little call now. "It's been a good pre-season so far. It's been very warm,
which makes it tough running around in this heat, but it has been going well
and I'm looking forward to getting some more games. "Hopefully I'll get
quite a few minutes in against Hamburg, and really push on. "You always want
to play as many games as you can before the start of the season and get your
fitness as high as it possibly can, so that you can hit the ground running.
"I was a late arrival here last year, so it's beneficial to be here from the
start. You go away on tour and you spend a lot of time together - getting
together as a team is always important."

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RIP Phil Woosnam: a unique player and teacher
KUMB.com
Filed: Monday, 22nd July 2013
By: Paul Walker

Phil Woosnam passed away in the States this weekend at 80, a man who became
a huge name in football after he left West Ham…but to those of a certain
claret and blue vintage, he was a legend who had a massive impact on the
transformation of our club in the 1960s.

Woosie was different. A skilled and cultured passing inside forward, he
didn't arrive at the Boleyn until he was 26, having been a physics teacher
at Leyton County High School and a renowned amateur player.

The Irons bought him from Leyton Orient in 1958, where he had only just
signed professional forms after playing for the Os as an amateur, something
unheard of in modern day football.

Woosnam, born in Caersws, Montgomeryshire in 1932, he had played for Wales
schools, youth and their amateur international side and studied at Bangor
University, where he also had a spell with Wrexham and played one game in
1952 for Manchester City.

He joined the Royal Artillery and played alongside Manchester United greats
Duncan Edwards and Eddie Coleman during his army soccer career.

But teaching was his career path, and he continued as an amateur with Sutton
United and the famous Middlesex Wanderers before joining Orient. He won his
first full Wales cap while still an amateur at Orient, before making 14
appearances for his country while at Upton Park.

In fact, Woosnam - a cousin of golfer Ian - only gave up his teaching
profession when he joined Ted Fenton's squad for a then club record of
£30,000. He went straight from the classroom into our First Division team.

At the time, West Ham were still evolving into a top flight side after 26
years in the then Second Division. Champions the season before, Woosnam
arrived and instantly gave West Ham a new dimension. Clever, inventive and
with a football brain to go with his academic one.

It is hard to underestimate the influence Woosnam had on the young men
around him who progressed soon into Ron Greenwood's great side of '64, '65,
and '66. Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, Ronnie Boyce, Joe Kirkup
and even John Lyall played alongside the Welshman.

When he arrived in '58, the players of the promotion side were, obviously,
still around. John Dick, Vic Keeble, John Bond, Ken Brown, Noel Cantwell,
Andy Malcolm, Malcolm Musgrove, John Smith and the like were the stars.

Woosnam was a vital link between West Ham's old and new generations. His
intelligence and talent helped lay the foundations for what was to come.
Although he strangely missed the key moment that established West Ham as a
new force, leaving before the 1964 Cup Final triumph.

He was sold to Aston Villa for £27,000 in 1963, a move that surprised many.
He had played 153 games for us and scored 29 goals.

The emergence of Boyce, and the signing of Johnny Byrne no doubt allowed
Greenwood to sell Woosnam. The talk at the time was that the highly
intelligent Woosnam was just a little too much of a barrack room lawyer for
Greenwood's taste. The young Welshman must have stuck out like a sore thumb
in West Ham's very East End working class dressing room, a graduate and a
very clever man.

He would have no doubt, questioned things he did not agree with, and was a
ready spokesman for the players.

But another reason was that he was a very ambitious man. The move to Villa
saw him play another 111 first team games, picking up another two caps
before making what was then a brave decision to take up a player-coach role
in the States with Atlanta Chiefs, by which time he was 34, and ended his
playing career there.

From then on, Woosnam became one of world soccer's great administrators. He
ran US soccer as their soccer league commissioner until 1982, helped in the
formation of New York Cosmos, which brought the likes of Pele to the Big
Apple. After leaving his role with the US league, he became an astute
businessman.

He was the marketing controller of US Soccer and had a major part to play in
getting the 1994 World Cup to the States. In 2003 the FA of Wales invited
Woosnam to spend time with them when they played the USA in California.

In more recent years he suffered from prostate cancer and Alzheimer's, and
died on Friday night in Atlanta. He will long be remembered for his work
promoting soccer in the States, but to West Ham fans from the 1960s, he was
the beginning of a new generation at the Boleyn.

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