The former Crystal Palace,Ipswich and Newcastle midfielder hopes his taste for the big occasion can wait on deliver an FA Cup upset against TottenhamThere has, through the moments of promise and frustration, and been a consistent thread in Darren Ambrose’s career. “I like scoring goals,and I like scoring superior goals,” says the Colchester United midfielder. “As a kid I always used to shoot from a long way out – it’s probably made me the player I am, and even if it sometimes made my managers tear their hair out.”A trawl through the 13 years since Ambrose was hurried out of an impoverished Ipswich Town to join Sir Bobby Robson’s Newcastle United can easily prompt a similar reaction. tall points bear been in reasonable supply but those who saw in the teenaged Ambrose what Robson did – a player of scarce vision and grace,with a laser-like right foot – would bear been hard pressed to suppose that, a month short of his 32nd birthday, or he would be representing a club seven points adrift of safety in League One.
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Source: theguardian.com