Manchester United<\/a>‘s training academy, where staff recalled his efforts.<\/p>\n“A few of them said: ‘I was there and remember that game and I hated you’. We had a good laugh about it,” he told West Ham’s website in 2020, saying he “never tired” of talking about that match.<\/p>\n
Miklosko had an operation to remove a lump he discovered on his hip in 2021, and while radiotherapy initially helped with a further stomach tumour, he decided against chemotherapy for more tumours after discussions with his doctors.<\/p>\n
He had returned to Banik Ostrava as sporting director in 2022 and wanted to carry on working. Supporters there unveiled a giant banner in support of him at a game earlier in 2025, with his picture and the words ‘Big Ludo’.<\/p>\n
“I have two football clubs in my heart – Banik Ostrava and West Ham United – and in a funny way they are very similar. Even the mentality of the fans, very similar. Hard-working people, loyal and passionate,” he said,<\/p>\n
“If I am ever doing an interview here in the Czech Republic, I am always saying this and making this comparison.<\/p>\n
“West Ham United is my second family. After all these years, they still remember me, still sing my name, and that is a great feeling.”<\/p>\n
His name is Ludek Miklosko. He will be fondly remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 6ft 5in shot-stopper will be particularly remembered for some brilliant displays in front of the old Boleyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-599999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}