West Ham have appointed former captain Steve Lomas as their new reserve-team manager.
Former skipper back at Upton Park as reserves' boss
West Ham have appointed former captain Steve Lomas as their new reserve-team manager.
The Hammers were looking to fill the role after Alex Dyer left to become assistant manager at Charlton and have welcomed Lomas back to Upton Park.
The 37-year-old came through the ranks at Manchester City before signing for the Hammers in March 1997.
Capped 45 times by Northern Ireland between 1994 and 2003, Lomas made 227 appearances for West Ham before leaving for QPR in 2005.
He finished his playing career at Gillingham in January 2008 and had a coaching role in Norwich's academy before enjoying a successful spell as manager of United Counties League side St Neots Town in Cambridgeshire.
Lomas' first game in charge will be the home game against Arsenal at Bishop's Stortford FC on Tuesday night.
"I start work against Arsenal and there are a lot of first-team players involved, which is good," he told the club's
official website.
"As reserve-team manager, I'll act as that little buffer between the young players coming up and the first-teamers coming down.
Fantastic
"It's fantastic for me to come back to such a great club," Lomas added.
"I had eight-and-a-half years here that I thoroughly enjoyed so to come back and help the young boys kick on and make the first team, that'll be great."
Lomas' squad for the Arsenal game features the likes of Radoslav Kovac, Winston Reid, Luis Boa Morte, Pablo Barrera, Julien Faubert, Zavon Hines and Herita Ilunga.
