West Ham captain Mark Noble has explained his decision to sign on for one final season.

Noble insists there was one factor which influenced his call.

He told the Daily Mail: "I've said it will be my last year playing at West Ham and it will be, unless something crazy happens which I can't see. It's very rare in football – very, very rare – that you get to write your own destiny.

"Normally when a player gets to my age, you're scratching around for a year or two, trying to get a contract, asking your agent to find a club. To be able to say I'm going to call it a day on my own terms at the top level in the Premier League is very, very rare."

He added: "There was no way I was going to do 18 years in the first team for West Ham and go out with no fans. No way."