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Zamora tipped for impact

14 Feb 2008 - 14:16:41

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Fit-again West Ham United striker Bobby Zamora has been tipped to make an impact during the final few months of the season.

The club's reserve team manager Kevin Keen was full of praise for the 27-year-old forward after he scored a hat-trick in a second string outing earlier in the week.

Zamora has been sidelined with a long-running knee problem which stretches all the way back to August 28.

The former Tottenham Hotspur striker has managed just four first-team appearances this season.

"He has been out a long while and it is good he is back," Keen told the club's official website.

"Bobby is an outstanding athlete. In my opinion he is one of the best forwards in the Premier League when he is fit and I have told him that on many occasions.

"We have just got to be a bit careful as to when we bring him back.

"We haven't got a game this weekend and then we play Fulham away but he could be a real diamond to have in the run-in for Curbs (manager Alan Curbishley).

"He can really turn games, he can score goals. I don't want to speak too highly of him because he is a big enough character anyway."