This is paraphrased, cos there's some irrelevant bits in between. These are his own words from the fantastic interview done with him by the Orientear fanzine."I remember it well! It was one of their last few games at the Goldstone with 10,000 fans there and it was packed. We came back from 2-0 down then Griff put us up 3-2.....during the celebration he did a 'gun salute' and a 'you're going down' moment, which riles the crowd up..........they pull it back to 3-3 then I ran straight down the middle, walked onto a cross and *bang* it's 4-3 within 30 seconds of them equalising. I did my somersault celebration which I was doing every now and then, and, as I landed, Griff tripped me up. All of a sudden there's a goot coming at me. I'm in the centre circle and there's this fan trying to boot me! There was one going for the ref, and Ray Wilkins clocks him one..........there were fans all over the pitch and I was shocked - I hadn't done anything I didn't normally do!........In the end they got a point and stayed up.
Since then I've become their cult hate figure because of the gun salute, even though I've told them on numerous occasions it wasn't me! Carl says it was Lee Hodges, but I think it was Griff! The abuse doesn't bother me; when I got taken off injured on Boxing Day they were all singing "Let him die" so I gave them a little bow. I score againt them more often than not, no matter who I'm playing for."
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