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MY PERFECT XI BOBBY ZAMORA
FourFourTwo UK
|November 2025
The West Ham cult hero selects a blend of England legends, Fulham favourites and a mad-footed midfielder
MARK SCHWARZER
“A machine. Mark played so many games in his Premier League career and you could just rely on him. A top bloke around the dressing room and some of the saves that he made on our Europa League run in 2010 saved our bacon.”
CHRIS BAIRD
“For a centre-forward, Chris was a dream. He could ping it upfield and land it on my chest with the right pace and precision every time. If you wanted a ball played somewhere, he'd just know and would pick it out. That's the kind of delivery that makes a striker look good.”
BREDE HANGELAND
“Brede was big, strong and hugely underrated. It's mad he wasn’t snapped up by a top club in his prime. There was talk of a move to Arsenal when we were at Fulham, though it never materialised. He would have done a job for them.”
JOHN TERRY
This story is from the November 2025 edition of FourFourTwo UK.
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