Bent turned down West Ham for Spurs
“I remember I was torn at the time because I was going to West Ham funnily enough.
“I’d been to meet [then West Ham manager] Alan Curbishley, come back from holiday, obviously I knew Alan Curbishley really well, he had taken me from Ipswich to Charlton. But obviously, I ended up going to Spurs because obviously, I felt Spurs were going in the right direction, they finished fifth.I was competing with some top strikers there in [Dimitar] Berbatov, [Jermain] Defoe and [Robbie] Keane.”
Shephard then intervened and said: “Arsenal fan as a kid so was there any sort of split there?”
“Yeah I was an Arsenal fan but it’s about career and playing for a massive football club. At the end the decision was pretty easy to be fair.