He was brilliant for Roy Hodgson's side in their run to the Europa League final in 2010 – a 20-yard blast in a win over Shakhtar Donetsk summed up how influential Zamora was for them during those heady days – and his form convinced Fabio Capello to give him his first England cap.
First, an elegant en pointe sashay through a bemused defence was crowned with a composed, artful finish – "what a good goal", said the commentator – and then a beautifully placed left-foot blast was deposited into the far corner from outside the box - "what a good goal", said the commentator.
Riyazaat Ali, a 27-year-old Hazara student who has fled Quetta for the port city of Karachi, a jumping-off point for many refugees, told Guardian Australia that the Australian government's decision was "worse than the biggest bomb blast".
Which was just as well because I was woken at dawn each day by a horn blast nearby.
She forwarded distressing video purporting to show the aftermath of the blast showed a child a with a wound to her eye being carried at the scene.
And the fact that, a few years after that, he'd blow up his evil dad on an oil rig the same day that an entire American city was destroyed by a nuclear blast cheapened it irreparably.
We're living in the time of a TV on the internet arms race, and Amazon signing Woody Allen is like a nuclear blast across the other network's bows.
The blast of frigid air sent temperatures plunging as far south as the Texas panhandle, where balmy 70-degree weather fell into the teens overnight.
I know exactly which mirrors in my house are soothingly cast in silvery shadow, and which cause me to bolt past, eyes averted from the blast of capillary-exposing reality.
In a blast from the past, former Rhode Island governor and senator Lincoln Chafee announced a presidential run on Wednesday.
Simon Mayo informs us Itch "had caused explosions before", as our eponymous hero knocks himself out in a phosphorous-related bedroom blast.
