Julian Dicks: Last News

West Ham hardman Julian Dicks "smashed" Joe Cole in training following a nutmeg - before warning him not to repeat his tricky antics again.The retired full-back spilled all to Daily Star Sport on the club's owners, the best Hammers stars he played with and what Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand were really like as youngsters. And he exclusively unveiled a hairy confrontation with Cole, then West Ham's next big thing.Speaking at Bookmakers.com Evening with the Hammers, Dicks told us: "I remember in training once we were doing one-on-ones, he nutmegged me and obviously all the boys took the p*** out of me. Next minute I smashed him and that was it."He just had to take that.

Cristiano Ronaldo had he played against the Manchester United forward. The former Birmingham and Liverpool defender played more than 160 times for the Hammers in the league across two spells, and wasn't one to shy out of a challenge to say the very least.Now manager of Heybridge Swifts in Essex, Dicks has admitted that he wouldn't have had a choice but to try and stop Ronaldo by any means necessary had they met on the playing field.