WEST HAM UNITED
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FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES &
Memorabilia through the Decade
A Pictorial History
Harry Redknapp
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LEE HODGES
Born: 2 March 1978, Newham, East London
Signed YTS 11 July 1994
Professional: 2 March 1995
Debut: 17 January 1998, Tottenham Hotspur (A)
Last game: 3 October 1998, Blackburn Rovers (A)
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Transferred: Scunthorpe United
Date: July 1999
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Newham-born Lee Hodges started on his football path as a schoolboy footballer with Arsenal, where he was capped by England at Under-16 level. The midfield / striker who was fast, elusive and reads the game well had a varied career in football after signing on a Youth Training Scheme (YTS) for West Ham United on 11 July 1994 before signed professional forms at Upton Park on 2 March 1995. Hodges, along with Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, and Neil Finn, he was in the 1996 FA Youth Cup final team that lost out, over two legs, 4-1 on aggregate to a Michael Owen-inspired Liverpool.
The striker was loaned out to Exeter City in September 1996, where he made his senior debut and went on to play 17 league matches during his three months with the club. Further loan periods followed at Leyton Orient and Plymouth Argyle.
Hodges made his Premiership debut for West Ham United on 17 January 1998 as an 85th minute substitute against Tottenham Hotspur in a 0-1 reverse at White Hart Lane and played in another four matches that season before again going out on loan, this time to Ipswich Town, making four appearances, and enjoyed a successful spell at Southend United, helping the Shrimpers stave off relegation from the Third Division.
The diminutive striker stalled on a new contract when he found out the French Premier League outfit Cannes and First Division club Le Havre were both interested in signing him. When these offers fell through Lee signed for Scunthorpe United in July 1999 for a £130,000 fee. After 113 appearances and 20 goals for the Iron, the midfielder moved to Rochdale in 2002, then a year later to Bristol Rovers (21 games, 2 goals) before dropping down to non-league soccer with Thurrock, Billericay Town, AFC Hornchurch, East Thurrock United and then joined his ex-Hammers' teammate, Joe Keith, on the playing and coaching staff at Tilbury FC.
Hodges returned to Billericay in March 2009 to take up a role as player-assistant manager, at the end of the season signed for Tilbury as player-coach followed by East Thurrock in the same role. He was appointed manager at Aveley in November 2011, but left after less than three months, In June 2021, Essex Olympian League club Herongate Athletic announced the signing of Hodges.
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TREVOR SINCLAIR
Born: 2 March 1973, Dulwich, London
Signed: Queens Park Rangers
Date: 29 January 1998
Fee: £2.3m + Dowie & Rowland
Debut: 31 January 1998, Everton (H)
Last game: 11 May 2003, Birmingham City (A)
Appearances: 205
Goals: 38
International: England ‘B’ cap, 11 England caps
Individual honours: Intertoto Cup Winner (1999)
Transferred: Manchester City
Date: 21 July 2003
Fee: £2.5m
Dulwich-born Trevor Sinclair began his career in Blackpool where he made his debut in 1989. After four years and 112 league appearances, the winger returned to London to sign for Queens Park rangers where he began to make a name for himself in the top flight. He won the BBC’s Match of the Day Goal of the Season award in 1997 for his spectacular overhead kick in an FA Cup match against Barnsley.
The winger made the switch across London on 29 January 1998 in a £2.3m deal that also saw Hammers striker Iain Dowie and Keith Rowland move in the opposite direction. Few players have made better starts to their West Ham United career than Trevor Sinclair.
The former England Under-21 international announced his arrival with two goals on his Premier League debut at home to Everton, before adding further strikes against Manchester United and Chelsea to help the Hammers to an eighth-place league finish. The following season, 1998/99, Sinclair added seven more goals, including both in a home win over Tottenham Hotspur, as West Ham finished a record-high fifth.
Summer 1999 saw Sinclair score as Harry Redknapp’s side won the UEFA Intertoto Cup with a memorable victory at French club Metz. Playing alongside the likes of Academy graduates Joe Cole, Michael Carrick and Frank Lampard Jnr, French playmaker Marc Keller, the enigmatic Paolo Di Canio and Frederic Kanoute, Sinclair formed part of one of the most entertaining West Ham teams – never more so than when his scissor-kick highlighted a 5-0 win over Charlton Athletic on Boxing Day 2000.
A superb 2001/02 season saw Sinclair make his England debut against Sweden in November 2001 and, the following spring, he was left out of Sven Goran Eriksson’s original 23-man squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals. Sinclair then flew the 8,000 miles home despite being invited to stay on with the squad, however, just a day after returning home to his family, the withdrawal of Liverpool’s Danny Murphy meant he was back on his way to the Far East. After grabbing his chance with both hands in the 1-0 victory over Argentina, the winger became one of England’s success stories as England reached the quarter-finals before being eliminated by Brazil. ‘Sincs’ picked up a total of 11 full international caps whilst on the books with West Ham.
Back at West Ham, Sinclair enjoyed his most prolific campaign in Claret and Blue in 2002/03, but his eight goals were not enough to save the Club from relegation from the Premier League.
On 21 July 2003 he moved to his boyhood idols Manchester City for £2.5m, but his performances over five-and-a-half seasons in east London will never be forgotten. He played 82 times in league competition for the Eastlands club and ended his career with a stint with Cardiff City.
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MARC KELLER
Born: 14 January 1968 Colmar, France
Signed: RC Strasbourg
Debut: 12 September 1998, Liverpool (H)
Last game: 19 September 2000, Walsall (A)
Appearances: 47/10
Goals: 6
Transferred: Blackburn Rovers
Date: 12 January 2001
Individual honours: Intertoto Cup Winner (1999)
Marc Keller was Harry Redknapp's first transfer coup at the end of the successful 1997/98 campaign. Capped six times by France he was unfortunate to miss out on a place in his country's winning World Cup squad of 1998.
Keller began his footballing career with Mulhouse and later transferred to Racing Club de Strasbourg in August 1991. Redknapp snapped the wing-back up on a free transfer from German Bundesliga club Karlsruhe SC on 1 July 1998, becoming the first foreign player to arrive at the Boleyn Ground under the Bosman ruling.
Comfortable on either flank, Keller was an attacking-minded player with a habit of scoring great goals. Perhaps his big break came when he scored the only goal of the game for his country against England in the Tournoi De France in June 1997, which came in the summer between two successful seasons with Karlruhe.His form there was enough to persuade Redknapp to bring Keller in to supplement his existing wide men – Andy Impey and Stan Lazaridis.
Keller made his Premier League debut as an 85th minute substitute on 12 September 1998 in a 2-1 home win against Liverpool. His first West Ham goal came on 22 November 1998 in a 2-0 away win against Derby County.
His attacking play soon caught the eye and he established himself in the Hammers starting XI. He made 22 appearances in the 1998/99 season and scored five goals in the process as West Ham finished the campaign in fifth place to qualify for the Intertoto Cup.
Keller played less often the season after, being used mainly in the cup competitions; he played four games in the Intertoto tournament including the 2nd leg final away to FC Metz which West Ham won 3-1 to win the trophy 3-2 on aggregate.
The Hammers qualified for the UEFA Cup in 1999-2000 as one of the three winners of the Intertoto competition. As a valued squad member he played in three of the Hammers’ four games in the UEFA Cup. Keller was one of 13 players who appearance in the 1999/00 League Cup 5th round stage which was subsequently deleted from the record books. The tie against Aston Villa ended 2-2 after extra-time with the Hammers winning the penalty shoot-out 5-4 only to find out two-days later the home side fielded an eligible player and the game was expunged from the records, tough on Keller as it was he who scored the Hammers 5th pen. West Ham lost the re-match 3-1. Keller's final appearance in a Claret and Blue shirt came in a League Cup game at Walsall in September 2000.
He was then loaned to Portsmouth the following month, where he made three appearances, before moving on 12 January 2001 to Blackburn Rovers on a free transfer. After his playing days were over, Keller became director then chief executive at former club RC Strasbourg, leading them into the UEFA Cup in 2005. Left for Monaco in Ligue 1, then in June 2012, he led a consortium that bought Strasbourg, and sold the club in June 2023. Later become a pundit with French media company Canal+
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JOE COLE
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DAVOR SUKER
Born: 1 January 1968, Osijek, SFR Yugoslavia
Signed: Arsenal
Date: 28 June 2000
Fee: Free
Debut: 19 August 2000, Chelsea (A)
Last game: 28 April 2001, Manchester City (A)
Appearances: 8/5
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International: Croatia (6 caps)
Suker began his footballing career in his hometown for local first division team NK Osijek in 1984 as a 16-year-old. In 1989, he moved to Dinamo Zagreb, scoring 34 goals in 60 matches and received his first call-up to the Yugoslavia national team.
Suker joined Sevilla in 1991, during his time with the Primera Division club he scored 76 goals in 153 appearances which prompted Real Madrid to call on his services for the start of the 1996/97 season.
In the summer of 1999, after the striker racked up 38 goals in 86 appearances for the Spainish giants, the Hammers tried in vain to sign the talented Suker from the Madrid club, instead he opted to move to Arsenal, where he slipped in quietly behind the trail of Arsenal's record capture at the time, Thierry Henry. Sadly for the Croatian striker though, behind the trail of Henry was where he remained for the entire campaign. Suker was handed only seven league starts, yet still managed to hit ten goals from 14 starts.
West Ham finally got his signature on 28 June 2000 as a "free" just a few days after Nigel Winterburn had made an identical move across London. At 32 years of age the Hammers had acquired the services of a natural goalscorer the like not seen at the club since the departure of Tony Cottee. Davor made his West Ham United bow in the opening game against London rivals Chelsea at Stamford Bridge which resulted in 2-4 reverse on the 19 August 2000.
Unfortunately for Davor he suffered the same fate as at Highbury becoming a bit-part player and never lived-up to his goalscoring reputation. Reclined to take-up the option of a one-year extension to his contract and returned to his native Croatia to start up the Davor Suker Soccer Academy, with training camps in the Croatian capital city of Zagreb. Later played for Munich 1860 in the German Bundesliga, in two seasons the striker clocked up 30 league and cup appearances scoring eight goals.
At international level he was awarded 68 Croatian caps, scoring 45 goals.
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