Cole determined to Hammer home a point

CARLTON COLE is determined to prove he can be a top-class striker for West Ham after falling foul of the Roman Abramovich regime at Chelsea.

The former England U-21 player was forced to sever ties with Stamford Bridge after being squeezed out of the picture by the sheer number of expensive foreign imports.

If it was not Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink ahead of him then it was Gianfranco Zola, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Mateja Kezman, Didier Drogba, Hernan Crespo or Andriy Shevchenko.