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Those are my two favourite things after a game. What I love is a bar of chocolate and a Club Orange, which is a fizzy drink from Ireland.

Some people sit there listening on their headphones but I like lively music to get me going.Ĭhocolate – and chocolate. I like a mix of songs but I like something lively before a game. If I was picking an R ‘n’ B song, there’s a new one out from a lad called Fetty Wap. There’s a recent song called ‘Intoxicated’ by Martin Solveig. It was my first promotion, too, so it was a great feeling. To get your reward as part of a hard-working group was very pleasing. It was coincidental that it came down to a penno that got us promoted in the end. I was still on loan there but you could feel the emotion from the lads after the year they had before with the penno miss (against Doncaster in the final game of the 2012-13 season). It was the penno (penalty) against Preston (Brentford won 1-0). Just to be involved and to score the goal that got us promoted was brilliant. When we got promoted from League 1 to the Championship with Brentford two years ago. Being so open-minded is probably why I’ve played so many positions over the years. I felt like I had a good engine on me and they obviously saw that as well. I liked being a striker but I was open-minded. Then, maybe in my second year in England when I was in the academy at Blackburn I got moved to the right wing and from then on I’ve just been moved around across the midfield. When I first moved over from Ireland, I was a centre forward.

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