Ex-international striker hails former team-mate’s ‘second to none’ understanding of the game and talks up NI’s growing Premier League influence

West Ham eye up Premier League striker as possible alternative to Troy Parrott  talkSPORT

Modest but sensible-looking recruitment befits the club’s new air of stability but a continuation of their spring slump could test David Moyes’s appetite for the fight Guardian writers’ predicted position: 10th (NB: this is not necessarily Andy Hunter’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s pos