Harry Redknapp lavishes praise on Bobby Zamora in the sub-Standard tonight. The Fulham striker tends to play well when he’s got a point prove so let’s hope he still feels he’s got a point to prove to Spurs after his spell at White Hart Lane.
Tottenham let Zamora go too quickly. He was a terrific schoolboy footballer at West Ham but then he disappeared out of the game.
I was manager of West Ham at the time and Frank Lampard Snr used to tell me what a good player Zamora was as a kid. But he stopped playing football and West Ham let him go.
Roy knows how to get the best out of Zamora and this season he is producing the goods. He is a possibility for England’s World Cup squad, although if the manager was going to pick him he might have been in the squad to face Egypt.
This is the best spell of Zamora’s career. He seems to thrive on being a big fish, one of the main players. Maybe he wasn’t that at Spurs or West Ham.
Fulham are a tough nut to crack and they got an incredible result against Shakhtar. Roy has done a great job and they have some other good players like Brede Hangeland and Danny Murphy.
Considering Tottenham got Defoe in exchange for Zamora, they didn’t sell him too early. Bobby played 18 games and scored 1 goal, which was in the league cup, against Wham. He didn’t cut it at WHL, and his scoring record was also pretty poor up to last season. This season he’s found his form, but he’s a 29 year old who’s never fulfilled his potential.
I’m not sure he plays well with a point to prove, Dan. It seems to me that his strong spells have come when he has proved his point. He had a point to prove all last season, after all. This year he got a few goals early and, as Harry says, is now the main man, and doesn’t feel he has a point to prove.
You see I’d say he had a point to prove this season because a lot of Fulham fans thought either a) selling him to Hull in the summer was a good idea or b) that he’d never finish consistently in the top flight.
Apart from a fortunate goal at Pompey, he didn’t score in the league until Hull in October. There were plenty of people around me questioning his position in the side during that sequence and after that miss at Manchester City.
He’ll feel he’s got some unfinished business with Spurs even if Tom’s statistics suggest that he was hardly setting the world on fire at the Lane – and hopefully that might spur him into producing another stellar performance.
Not first class = Not first class. Zamora’s just that. Nothing to fear. COYS!
His goalscoring return this season suggests otherwise.