Glenn Murray

I watched 'Match of the Day' growing up every week and I'm talking until I was 29-years-old.

If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.

I grew up desperate to be a professional footballer and I was willing to do anything to be one.

Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for - they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department.

If you stop learning at any time, you start to fall down the leagues.

I'm never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That's not me.

All goals are amazing. But scoring away from home, if I am honest, is extra special.

I had four great years at Palace but just felt it was the right time to start a new chapter of my career.

It took me a little bit of time in the Premier League. I came back from an ACL and got one goal in I think six months at Crystal Palace. It wasn't great but I got to grips with the Premier League, started to understand what it's about because it's very different to the lower leagues.

The lowest point in my non-league career came when I was a teenage substitute for Workington Reds in a game at Blyth Spartans, and some kids started throwing eggs at me and the other subs when we were warming up.

I'm an out-and-out striker. It's my job to hold the ball up, to get in the box and to score goals. And, yes, I keep count.

As far as I am concerned I just want to play games, score as many goals as possible, wherever that may be.