West Ham defender Ben Johnson is delighted to be back in action.
Johnson was pleased to be back in action for West Ham U23s on Friday night, and is looking forward to progressing this season.
The full-back, who made a memorable first-team debut at Premier League champions Manchester City last season, has been unavailable for selection since early September due to injury.
It was a great feeling, a fantastic feeling just to be out there and playing again," he told whufc.com after their 4-0 defeat of Aston Villa. I feel more like a footballer again. I just want to kick on now, get more minutes under my belt, keep enjoying the game and relishing training. It feels like the sky's the limit.
I'm back in training and I want to play more games. I'll need to get full games under my belt and full training sessions again before I'm ready to keep pushing my body. My aim is to get first-team football under my belt this season, so it's just a matter of patience and showing the manager what I can do in these games and in training.
I want to show Dmitri [Halajko] and Steve [Potts] and Ricky [Martin] what I can do, and they will pass on that information, so when I get the chance to play with the U23s, I've got to try to be one of the best players out there."
