'Sir' Les, whose past injuries, lest we forget, include a broken nose, jaw, cheekbone, collarbone, toes, a fractured and dislocated wrist, knee cartilage and Achilles ankle tendon problems - and the matter of head wounds with a total of over 50 stitches barely merit a mention as far as he is concerned - do not a reticent forward make.
And Les, who refused many interviews last week concerning his first game against the team he used to support, is not backward in coming forward when it comes to the field of battle.
On the other hand, off the pitch, he is the epitome of subtlety, and, as he said here last week, the Spurs game was not about him against his former club, but about West Ham winning three points, whomsoever they may be against.
But first, to matters physical, and Les did not, as was reported over the weekend, go to hospital after the game.
Groggy? Maybe.
Unable to meet his post-match guests? Not a bit of it.
"It was just another bang on the head," says the man who has been hospitalised many a time for concussion.
"And there is a bit of a fracture just under my eye."
So, Les, you did know who you scored for on Saturday, then?
He laughs:
"I was still conscious, it was just a bit sore, and I knew what I was doing when the ball came to me!"
Les will is undergoing checks today, however, and club doctor Ges Steinbergs explains:
"We will know better after tests but he has cracked the eye socket before and there is no displacement so we don't think there is major damage - though he did get two other blows in the game."
A couple of whacks and leaving the field with both eyes still more or less in place - all in a day's work for Les, who adds:
"We got about Tottenham really early and didn't allow them to impose their game on us; we imposed our game on them and that was our strength."
It was Les' first goal for the club - if not his debut injury - on Saturday, and he says:
"I had one come back off the bar against West Brom but it was good to get off the mark on Saturday.
"It was a good run from Jermain, and I know he usually has a crack himself when he gets into those positions, but I was wondering whether he was going to slip me through.
"He saw my run, I took one touch, and just hit it across the goalkeeper.
"When there has been a bit of rain on the pitch you say get your shots in because anything can happen - and fortunately for us it ended up in the back of the net.
"We had worked on a few things in training and it came into fruition on the day."
It was a first win of the season without Paolo Di Canio - suffering, unfortunately, from gastritis - and Les says:
"Fantastic - it shows good team spirit and we took on what we did last week, we scraped an battled for a result there, and we played some good football."
As for that statistic, he adds:
"Maybe the fans, but the players didn't think about that at all.
"I watched the lads in training this week and I was pretty confident in what they were doing - I had a good feeling about the game."
But can Les hold off the threat of Paolo - and, for that matter, Fredi Kanoute's - return?
"We will have to wait and see," he says.
"We will try to stay there as long as we possibly can, and that is all that matters; it is a big squad now, competition for places, and that is all you want."
As for facing his erstwhile - and from not that long ago - team mates, and the physical treatment he got on the day, he says:
"You have your fun and games before you get out on the park, but it is business as usual when you get out there - and I expected it."
As well as finishing for the first goal - at 11/2 incidentally - he can claim an 'assist' for the second when he jumped in the Spurs box, thus forcing an error from Kasey Keller which allowed Michael Carrick to score.
Many a referee would have given a free kick against the goalkeeper as they are so well protected, irrespective, in this instance, of the fact there was no foul, just a fair and robust challenge on the custodian.
"I was pleased he didn't because the keeper came a long way and I jumped with him without making contact - in fact I think he got contact with the ball," says Les.
"It just bounced down but luckily Michael was there to finish it - and we got three points, which is the main thing."
Talking of bustling centre forwards, a former striker, Lee Chapman - known for his reticence as a West Ham player to give interviews on behalf of the club - appeared on Sunday's Harry Hill show talking about making sculptures from the grains of scratch cards.
We trust Les, a thoroughly approachable bloke - despite the aggressive style that was arguably also a feature of Lee's play - will not be discussing such obscure matters when his career ends...