Zola (23 replies)

Listening to a podcast Under The Cosh with Carlton Cole. He’s telling a story that apparently team morale was low at West Ham because Zola was skinning their defenders so bad, apparently Bellamy had to pull him aside and say “boss you can’t train with us no more”????

Also a great story of one of the lads went on a coaching course with Zola, he was doing a defending drill where he placed 2 defenders in their position, one of the defenders being Tony Adams, the guy then passed the ball to zola, he dropped his shoulder went past Adam’s and curled it with his right top bins. He pulled Tony aside and said show him on to his left, so again passed ball to Zola, he drops his shoulder and curls one top bins with his left, he pulls Tony aside and says “tony what do you think we should do to stop him scoring” Tony says “Stop passing him the f*cking ball” ????

Well worth a listen lads, Zola was an incredible player, shame he couldn’t transfer that over to his management.