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“Zarate – the perfect professional”

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Zarate actionMauro Zarate’s cameo performance in the match against Everton has shown what might happen should the manager Sam Allardyce finally decide to show real faith in the player.

Even Andy Carroll has joined the Argentinian’s fan club praising him to the skies of the club’s official site and thus giving Sam Allardyce a real decision to make.

For given everything that we saw on Saturday, it will come as a massive shock if Zarate again finds himself playing second fiddle to Carlton Cole.

Carroll sees him as a game changer and a guy who can truly unsettle some of the best defences in the land.

As the big man  prepares to for the visit of his hometown club – Newcastle – on Saturday he would clearly get a big boost from having Mauro alongside him.

He told the official site: ““He is great. He has got quick feet, he is nippy and he gets in and around defenders. He’s a great player and he showed that on Saturday because he changed the game when he came on.”

I can’t believe that Carlton Cole will get the shout ahead of Zarate of whom one insider told ClaretandHugh: “At his best he is world class and is now totally injury free. We all expected him to play on Saturday.

“But fair play to him. Despite his reputation for reacting when things go against him, he’s been the model professional since he arrived here and has just got on with it. There’s not been a single complaint.

“He got lost when the play went long in the last half an hour at Goodison but if we play to his strengths we will definitely lessen the impact of the current injury situation.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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  • philobvious says:

    Hugh, love your work mate but aren’t all these stories today a bit politically correct compared to the one important issue from Saturday? That performance from Tomkins has no place at our club. You and everyone else rightly castigated that goose Flores last year. Let’s all make it clear what we think of one of our men trying to pull the same cheating effort?

  • WhuG says:

    Poster:”Hugh I love your work”

    Hugh: “Was going to write something precisely along those lines”

    Hugh, you are far too modest 🙂

  • westhamwag says:

    Can’t blame Tomkins for trying, afterall Barkley conned the ref into getting a free kick when Nolan didn’t touch him. Saying that don’t want to see any more antics from any of our team.

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