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Ched Evans has revealed his front teeth were knocked out during his first game for Chesterfield last season.

The striker joined the Spireites last year when his rape conviction was quashed, but couldn't prevent the club's relegation to League Two.

And he has admitted he was subjected to rough treatment from opposition defenders.

"I had my two front teeth knocked out at Oxford," he told the Daily Mail . "The referee had told me, 'You're in for some s*** today, lad'. I went up for a header and I got elbowed in the face."

Evans was wrongfully convicted of rape in 2012 and served half of a five-year prison sentence.

He was released in 2014 and found not guilty in a retrial last year.

After a season with Chesterfield, he has re-signed for former club Sheffield United in the Championship.

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He added: "It's a bit surreal thinking I'll soon be playing there again. It brings back weird feelings, good feelings.

"It's my club. Going back is a dream. The majority of the fans have been brilliant with me throughout what happened. I'd like to repay them by getting back to where I was, the form I was in when I left them."

Evans was released by the Blades in 2012 following his conviction.

And several high-profile people spoke out when he was linked with a move back to Bramall Lane in two years later, including Jessica Ennis-Hill who asked for her name to be removed from a stand at the club's stadium.

But Evans said: "If you look at the scrutiny they came under you couldn't really blame them. Public figures, the media, threats to the staff, you couldn't really create an issue out of them reacting to that in the way they did. I think anybody under that pressure would have done the same thing."