I think it was probably the first time anyone had ever seen four very good strikers playing within one club. I think you always had two, without a doubt, maybe three, but to have four was very nice for the manager to be able to call on all four with me, Coley, Yorkey and Ole.

Let’s be honest. The real case was Yorkey and Coley were having a fantastic season and were the number-one pair.

Without doubt.

It was up to myself and Ole to fight our way back into contention, to try to change the manager’s mind on who the best pairing was. Whether it’d be Coley and me or Yorkey and Ole, whoever, it was up to us to change the manager’s mind. He was firmly set on Yorkey and Coley, and rightly so, as they were an outstanding combination. That didn’t mean to say myself and Ole wouldn’t try our hardest to get back into the side, though.

With two striking pairs, it would probably be said that Yorkey and Coley and myself and Ole were more the different type of players to accommodate each other and be the preferred pairing, you would say. For me, around February, I had an injury and obviously lost my place in the team.

I’d been in and out at times and had different injuries so the manager said to me, and I think it was around February time: “Look, don’t worry about getting fit in the near future. Don’t worry about just being ready for the next game in a week’s time or two weeks’ time. You’ve had a couple of injuries, so make sure you’re ready for the run-in at the end of the season because I think this can be a big season for us.”

He said that to me in February so his foresight was unbelievable, to realise what was going to happen and it kind of gave me a breather to say, okay as a footballer, you want to be involved in the next game and want to be fit. You always try to push yourself to be ready but this was his way of saying it was going to be a big season and I want you to be part of it.

So just make sure you’re ready for it.

And I didn’t race back from my injury at that particular time. So I wasn’t going to break down and be out again a couple of weeks later.

It was nice to be told that was the case and I would be involved in the push at the end of the season.