After three non-stop seasons, West Brom defender Gianni Zuiverloon finally gets a break

Feb 8 2009 by Robert Tanner, Sunday Mercury

were good for me to make a good impact in the Premiership.

“I think I have adapted to English football and the different demands.

“Of course, every game is different and you learn from each one but I feel I am there now.

“When I first came it wasn’t difficult to cope with the intensity of the game here, because of the Olympics. The pace of the Olympics was very high and similar to the Premier League.”

The number of games has caught up with Zuiverloon as he picked up a hamstring strain earlier in the season and has recently returned after a knee injury.

He admits he is still not 100 per cent fit, despite scoring his first goal for the club during the 3-1 defeat to Burnley last Tuesday night, but doesn’t think his non-stop schedule is the problem, just the recent English fixture pile-up.

“The first seven or eight games were good but after that I played a few that were not so good, and I have had a few niggles and injuries,” he said, assessing his own performances.

“I had a hamstring injury and then came back and