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Podcast: We Are West Ham Podcast
Episode: Our guardian Angelo ft. Wally Downes
Description: West Ham fans were saddened to learn about the death of Papa Bouba Diop on Sunday.
The Senegalese - or 'The Wardrobe' as he was known - played for the Hammers for just a year in the 2011-12 season but was well liked and immediately gained the respect of his team-mates for his kind nature and outstanding attitude in training.
Former Hammers assistant manager Wally Downes was Sam Allardyce's No 2 during Diop's year at the club and Downes dialled in from Jamaica to speak to Will Pugh about his first hand experiences with the gentle giant.<...