West Ham U18s boss Kevin Keen is confident “the next Mark Noble or Declan Rice” will be on show tonight as his charges travel to Ipswich for the club’s first FA Youth Cup quarter-final in 18 years.
Noble was himself part of the last Hammers side to get this far in the competition and Keen’s boys are looking to go one better by reaching a first semi-final since 1999, when a team featuring the likes of Joe Cole and Michael Carrick went on to lift the cup.
