Carlton Cole is an English professional footballer born in 1983 who currently plays for West Ham. He began his career as a youth team player at Chelsea and former manager, Claudio Ranieri, described the striker as ‘a lion.’ However, Cole did not start to fulfill his potential until the 2008/9 season. Until then his career consisted of loans to clubs such as Wolves and Aston Villa where he could not score the goals people thought he was capable of. He moved to West Ham in 2006 but only started to show some form in the 2007/8 season when he scored 6 goals and got 9 assists. But the following season he hit 12 goals, a personal best, and got 4 assists. His newfound form earned him a first England cap in February 2009 against Spain.
England striker Carlton Cole insists he was happy to reject interest from other clubs during the transfer window to concentrate on West Ham's survival campaign... more
West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola is confident the loss of Carlton Cole to injury will not derail his side as they look to maintain their strong recent run with victory over Manchester United... more
West Ham have slapped a £20million price tag on Carlton Cole as the club brace themselves for a raft of offers for their star players in the January transfer window... more
Two gigantic questions hung over Upton Park when this fixture began, and despite much of the journey being aimless, circuitous and mind-numbingly dreary we arrived at both answers in the end... more
West Ham midfielder Scott Parker has backed Carlton Cole to establish himself in the England squad despite his blunder in front of Fabio Capello... more
West Ham striker Carlton Cole believes he produced the form of his career last season and has warned the rest of the Premier League there is even more to come this year... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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