The former Hartlepool this afternoon said of his foot injury: "I'm a lot better and I should be fine for Saturday. It was badly swollen the other day and there is still a lot of bruising, but I've done a bit of running and should be fit.
"West Ham will be tough opponents. They have a lot of firepower, with strikers like Bobby Zamora, Brian Deane and David Connolly, and Matthew Etherington is dangerous on the left. But we're the leading scorers, don't forget, so we can't be doing that much wrong."