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Mark Noble

(1987) Association Football Player United Kingdom

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Mark Noble is an association football player from the United Kingdom, best known for American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens.

Quick Facts About Mark Noble

Born: May 8, 1987
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Association Football Player
Notable works: American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens

About Mark Noble

Mark James Noble is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the sporting director of Championship club West Ham United. A fan of the club since childhood, Noble spent eighteen years with West Ham playing as a central midfielder, serving as club captain for seven years, before retiring at the end of the 2021–22 season. Aside from two brief loan spells at Hull City and Ipswich Town, Noble played all of his first team matches for the club, earning him the nickname "Mr West Ham".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Mark Noble

The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

Affordability

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I was at Arsenal as an 11-year-old. I really enjoyed it but I was at school and my dad used to drive…

Dad

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I feel a lot older than I am.

Am

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Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land…

Improvement

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You can't play man to man against Liverpool and out-pass them. You have to keep your shape and stop them.

Keep

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In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are…

City

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I want to score but when you think of the soldiers in Iraq with bullets flying around their heads you realise a…

Around

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I'm English, I've always wanted to play for England but it's out of my hands.

Always

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The Premier League is a results business.

Business

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I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.

Alan

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Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in,…

Back

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I've just always got on with people older than me for some reason.

Always

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People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.

Goals

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At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.

Club

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Refs won't get everything right but those decisions really hurt teams.

Decisions

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I played at White Hart Lane against Michael Carrick and Edgar Davids when I was 18.

Against

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To accumulate almost 500 games in a decade and a half means I'm averaging more than 30 per season and I'm proud of that.

Decade

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Not to win is guttering.

Football

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When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the…

Dad

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My definition of economic development is economic growth.

Definitions

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When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really…

Back

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I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.

Dad

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My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the…

Ability

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I was walking along somewhere in the Maldives and there were West Ham fans there. It's crazy.

Crazy

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People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.

Creating

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