
Forward thinker: Mark Noble starts his new job as West Ham’s sporting director in January
(Picture: Dave Shopland/Shutterstock)Mark Noble’s tutor at Harvard University will perhaps, if she reads the introduction to his autobiography, be more impressed with the financial enterprise than the dubious ethics of an earlier money-making deal.
“We were always trying our luck,” he writes in his book, Boleyn Boy. “West Ham had no idea that they were responsible for our pocket money. My mate had a girlfriend who worked in one of the kiosks at Upton Park.