Mark Noble reveals Joe Hart once ‘beat up’ Declan Rice after England international got cocky in training WHUFC
West Ham United icon Mark Noble has revealed Joe Hart once ‘beat up’ Declan Rice after the England international got cocky in training.
Banter is part and parcel of being a footballer but occasionally there are repercussions – especially when you mess with a ‘mad’ goalkeeper.Rice is now a fearless captain in east London but when he was 19 years old he was just as brave – even when greeted by a ‘tank’ like Hart. And Noble, now sporting director at West Ham following his retirement as a player at the end of last season, explained just why the England interntional, now 24, got himself into big trouble with the current Celtic shot-stopper back in 2017/18., Noble said: “Harty will tell you this. We were doing a shooting session, the coach pings it at you, you have a touch and finish.“Dec must’ve been young, like 19 at the time, and he’s had a touch and he’s got a lovely strike on him.
“Harty went ‘Dec, if you say that again I’m going to [beat you up].’ It’s come back to Dec and he’s missed one, he’s hit another one and it’s gone in and I said ‘go on, say it.’ “He went, ‘one day, Harty’ and I swear to you, Harty has just left him, sprinted across the pitch and Dec’s took off down the tunnel, chased him the whole way around the London Stadium, like the whole way through it, got him and beat him up.
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