West Ham United striker Carlton Cole feels the current generation young players are too pampered.

Cole feels they're too spoilt.

He told the Daily Mail: "When I was young and first went to a Premier League side I was working hard trying to make it. I got my first pro contract at 17. I was travelling with the team, going up north, but still I had to wash Dennis Wise's boots at that age.

"To get to home matches I used to walk through the crowd of people going to the game and then I'd be on the bench. This is when I'd already made my debut. After away games I had to wait for everyone to come off the coach and take the kit skip out to where it was supposed to be.

"Now these kids don't have to do that. They think everything comes easy. I did a lot of stuff. I used to play a Premier League game and get on a bus to go home. These kids are getting driven home now, you know what I mean?"