Out of favour striker Bobby Zamora insists he is happy to battle for his place in the West Ham starting line-up despite a disappointing start to the season.

The former Brighton goal machine made a blazing start to the pre-season tour of Sweden before picking up a knee injury on his return to England.

Since then he's struggled to dislodge Teddy Sheringham, Marlon Harewood and now Don Hutchison from the Hammers team, and was back in the reserves in midweek looking to boost his match sharpness ahead of Sunday lunchtime's trip to Millwall.

It's a struggle which is inspiring him despite the tough competition for places.

"I'm really happy here," Zamora said. "Of course I'd love to be starting all the time but there's a tremendous amount of strikers here."