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Gianfranco Zola has been handed a tough test as he enters his second year in the West Ham hotseat.

The Irons entertain Liverpool looking for their first league victory since winning 2-0 at Wolves on the opening day of the season.

HE’S the godfather of Green Street, the man who has nurtured the talent emerging from West Ham’s youth academy over the past 35 years.

But academy director Tony Carr is not resting on his laurels because he knows the work he and his staff do is of incalculable benefit to the club, especially in the economic climate.

Freddie Sears, James Tomkins and Jack Collison are the latest academy graduates to make an impression on the first-team squad but Carr is determined to keep the conveyor-belt of talent turning.