Article: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a trainee angel (but he'd rather be a flying winger) DANNY BUCKLAND TALKS TO ACTOR RAY WINSTONE;WRITER TONY GROUNDS ABOUT A TV DRAMA FEATURING WEST HAM

TOUGH guy actor Ray Winstone is being showered with drama awards but there is one role he is desperate to play . . . West Ham manager Harry Redknapp.

Hammers-barmy Ray would trade all the luvvie backslapping for a few moments in the dugout directing his claret and blue troops into Premiership action.

"Once West Ham is in your blood you cannot get rid of it," says Ray, an Upton Park season-ticket holder who has followed the team from the days of Moore, Hurst and Peters, through the wilderness years and on to the soaring promise of the current squad.

"I have seen all sorts down there but nothing like today's squad.

These could be the boys who form the backbone of the future England squad.

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