Bobby Zamora - Striker - #677

As a boy, he played for Senrab in east London, alongside John Terry, Ledley King, Paul Konchesky and Jlloyd Samuel.[2][3] A lifelong West Ham United fan,[4] he started his footballing career as an apprentice at the club's Academy of Football but was released from the east London club on the same year group as Samuel, Fitz Hall and Konchesky.

Having been watched for much of the previous two seasons by the then manager Glenn Hoddle, Zamora moved to Tottenham Hotspur for a £1.5 million fee in July 2003. However, he struggled to gain a consistent first-team place at White Hart Lane, making only 18 cup and league appearances, 11 as substitute, and scoring a single goal, knocking West Ham United out of the League Cup in October 2003.

In January 2004, Zamora joined West Ham in a deal which saw Jermain Defoe go the other way to Tottenham Hotspur.

Nowadays his interests outside football include involvement in a social housing scheme with Rio Ferdinand and Mark Noble. Zamora appeared on The Grand Fishing Adventure in 2022 with Ali Hamidi, a four-episode series where the two visited some of Britain's best fishing locations.

Zamora was never one of the most technically gifted centre-forwards of his generation but there’s a reason why he won a pair of caps for the Three Lions while leading the line in England’s top flight for years, representing the likes of West Ham, Fulham and QPR. The English man was unstoppable on his day and a staggering performance in Fulham’s fabled 4-1 Europa League victory against Juventus in 2010, in which he made Ballon D’Or winner Fabio Cannavaro look like a Sunday League player, will forever remain in the memory.

But Zamora never truly proved himself at the very top of the English game – a regret that lives with him to this day.

“Maybe I should have dealt with it differently and done what I’ve seen other people do to get the move that they want,” Zamora said, reflecting on his failure to secure a move to Tottenham or Liverpool after a 19-goal season for Fulham in 2010.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Fulham when I stayed there but maybe that would be one regret, not going to Liverpool or Spurs at that top time. Probably Liverpool more than Spurs.”

Career statistics

Games played: 572, Goals scored: 190

Spurs statistics

Games played: 18, Goals scored: 1