Arnie Made Captain But Noble Says "I'll Be Back!"

West Ham travel the short distance across London to the Emirates Stadium to take on an Arsenal side that shares the dubious tag of being without points after two Premer League matches, both clubs have new managers and several new players to integrate in to their systems, West Ham more so than Arsenal. Another similarity is that both teams will be without players who were once considered to be the 'main man', in Hammers' case it is captain Mark Noble, and for Arsenal it is Mezut Ozil, both players have been deemed past their prime by fans and pundits alike, in Ozil's case the German international team manager waided in accusing Ozil of playing like S**t for the last few years.

Noble's absence will mean apart from replacing the player, Manuel Pellegrini must also appoint a new captain for the Arsenal match at least. The overwhelming support among fans is for last year's Hammer of the Year Marko Arnoutovic to be made captain, Social media is awash with fans urging Pellegrini to appoint 'Arnie'. At this point a lot of fan's sites will copy and paste Twiiter comments about Arnie and the captaincy, however at the Org we believe if you want to read Twitter comments that you should use Twitter! The same applies for Instagram comments Etc, it is lazy journalism and is a bit 'click baitish'!

Pellegrini has the chance to restart his West Ham tenure this afternoon at the Emirates, Noble's unavailability means the manager can go ahead and select the team he has probably always wanted to field, pace and power utilising a high line has always been his mantra, and with a more mobile midfield he stands a far better chance of reaching the high standards he expects.

Part of the joy of having a decent sized squad is that fans can become armchair managers and pick their best squad, below is one mooted line up, but who knows? Manuel Pelegrini wanted to wring the changes, this afternoon's match will present him with plenty of opportunity, Marko Arnoutovic instead of Mark Noble will be a different form of captaincy even though Mark Noble has already said " I'll be back", mark our words! - Ed