Mr West Ham at the Newham Bookshop

A great turnout at the Newham Bookshop yesterday for Mark Noble signing copies of Boleyn Boy. The queues stretched round the block and the shop sold all 400 copies – demand was so great Mark even had to fetch 20 copies from his car boot. The queue started at 9am and one fan had travelled up from Dorset. 

Nobes was obviously very impressed to meet local legend Vivian and as ever proved a diamond geezer. He had a word for everyone during his two-hour session and was great with kids and starstruck fans alike. We also learned that Said Benrahma is fantastic in training, the most stressful thing about retirement is watching West Ham and that Mark likes a Bounty when his two sons were dispatched to the car to get some chocolate. Top man and as many fans said, we could do with him on the pitch now.