Below is an article by Mark Segal concerning Joe Cole's frustrating descent to bit-part
player...
"When you're older, you'll be able to tell your grandchildren you
were at Upton
Park the day Joe Cole signed his first professional contract.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define
you
I raised a toast and drank to auld acquaintance on Tuesday, writes Frank Keating in this morning's
Guardian. There was a bitter taste to it, of course, because it would – should – have been
Bobby Moore's 70th birthday had cancer not so wretchedly cut him down at 51, in 1993.
