Relief for Zamora as drought ends

SOMETIMES, it is best for managers not to bow to player power.

Bobby Zamora had been so beleaguered by his wretched recent form for Fulham that he asked his manager Roy Hodgson if he could be withdrawn from the firing line.

Hodgson refused and the tough love approach reaped handsome dividends yesterday, as Zamora ended his scoring drought — which had stretched to 29 hours of league football — to help his side up to eighth in the Premier League table.