"He is just a pure striker and that is what comes out after the transfer requests and him saying: 'It's better for me to leave because I want to play Champions League.' When we heard that Arsenal might be interested in him, obviously we were up for it and we thought, 'Yeah, he would fit in.' But after, we got Özil".
The former Wales and Liverpool striker took charge of the Crawley in December after John Gregory stepped down to undergo heart surgery.
Aleksandr Kokorin Only 23 and a relative newcomer to the international stage, the Dynamo Moscow player has emerged as first-choice striker under Fabio Capello and is expected to retain that position in Brazil at the expense of the experienced Aleksandr Kerzhakov.
Despite the impressive finishing, the game lacked finesse for long spells and McCormack almost capitalised on slack Wigan defending for a second time after latching on to a cross-field pass from Michael Turner, only for the striker to be halted by a desperate last-ditch slide from Emmerson Boyce.
The Maribor striker robs the Frenchman of possession and slots the ball into the gaping goal.
Spurs fans refer to themselves as 'Yiddos', you see. 15 min: From the left wing, Gareth Bale hoists a cross towards Jermain Defoe, but it's too high for the striker to connect with it.
For example Adolf Urban, Schalke's star striker who had made his debut for the interntional side in 1935 aged only 21 and was a member of the Breslau Elf, helped his club side to a league triumph in 1942, then played in their cup final defeat to 1860 Munich.
At the other end of the pitch, star striker Amad Al-Hosni has troubled Australia in the past and is increasingly surrounded by younger team-mates as Le Guen, who is approaching an impressive three year anniversary in the job, has used his joint role as Olympic coach to smoothen the transition from youth teams to senior side.
Zamora has lost much of his mobility and, in the 34-year-old's own words, he is a battering ram of a striker now.
Of the eight footballers to have asteroids named after them, 10634_Pepibican, so-named after the Czech-Austrian striker Josef Pepii" Bican and loitering about in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is the largest with a radius of, erm, 20km.
Cristiano Ronaldo was on target in the Group B clash at St Jakob-Park with his first-half strike his 71st in the Champions League, taking him level with the former Real Madrid striker, Raúl.
