Hartson & Kitson, before the latter got injured, DiCanio and Kanute, until, surprise surprise, the latter got injured, then we had Carlton cole for a decade, so that was that. Before those there was Franky MacAvenie and Tony Cottee. (Fossy, is it true that, until Vardy, Cottee had the highest tally of league goals in a single season for Leicester at 13?)
It was over five years Didier Drogba and his Shadow was another great partnership: Didier Drogba didn’t need a partner to become a goalscoring legend at Chelsea. The towering Ivorian was the key to Chelsea’s success in the Roman Abramovich decade, as his 157 goals from 341 appearances attest.
Could well have been ...we loved Cottee and repaid his efforts by giving him a League Cup winners medal ...the only time he won something in a fine career. Him and Heskey were excellent together ...remember them notching one each as we beat Fergie's United at Old Trafford.
Yeah, he was a great player, natural goal scorer and a West Ham boy through and through, which is probably why we sold him, cos that's what we always do.