 I will come on to World Cup stuff in a bit, but before that I want to know, I know it's a team game, but what's it like to be the guy to score the promotion clinching goal? Yes, a surreal feeling. Obviously prior to that I broke my foot and had to have surgery on my foot, so as soon as I did that I knew my timeframe for the games coming back would have been short. So I wanted to make a big impression as possible and for me to score that goal and to have that moment and celebrate with the lads and it's a feeling I'll never forget. Do you get mobbed every time you set foot in Bournemouth Town Centre? I wouldn't say mobbed, but it's nice to see the reaction from the fans for moments like that. You've scored plenty of goals throughout your career, but have you ever managed a hat-trick like you did in May and June? No, I'd say that was probably the sweetest one. That was an amazing moment for a person that's had my background in football and where I've come from and where I've started and where I've now got to, for me to have that moment and to have that in my career is a moment I'll never forget. I feel like I've worked relentlessly hard for those moments and now it's about keeping going and making the most of it. Do you mind looking back, telling us about your journey, because we're so used to seeing what's become a traditional academy into first team story. Your course was the other end of the spectrum, wasn't it? It was, so it won't bore you to death with it. I started in non-league, essentially made it to Joval in the championship, spent two seasons there, then I went out to Norway, didn't have the most successful time there and then found myself back in non-league. So that was a real eye-opening experience, thinking I've ruined my chance and for me at that moment in time I had to work harder than I've ever worked and I think that put me in a great place and knowing that I had that fire inside me to keep going and I wanted more from myself. I did stupid amounts of hours to improve and try to be the fittest and strongest version of myself. I've essentially made it back into the football league and from then it's just been an up trajectory because I've carried that mindset and that work ethic along with me the whole way. Having made it into the championship, why did it go wrong? It's kind of tough, I think I struggled with a couple of injuries at first because maybe I wasn't accustomed to the load of training and games but coming away from that, Joval was a squad that maybe shouldn't have been there at the time. We weren't blessed with the big budgets that all the other teams were in that league and I know that says nothing about how you should perform but we have essentially got relegated and it was a tough season but I think a lot of the players took a lot from that season. I couldn't really put it down now. Maybe I was young, naive and lacked experience and maybe awareness of what I needed to bring myself and I feel like mentally and physically I've worked hard from that stage to improve on all aspects. Not many British players head off to Norway that impressive to take yourself out of that comfort zone. What was your thinking behind it? You said it wasn't the greatest time but what did you take from it? I took everything from it. I think once you get to a point where you've made a sacrifice of going somewhere and you know that it can go one or two ways. I wouldn't say make or break but it was genuinely that. I had to do well out there and ultimately I didn't and for me to say that I learnt that I had to take responsibility for myself and how I wanted to go about my career and what I wanted from my career. On the football inside I may have failed but on a personal note it made me hungrier than ever and it gave me a real ambition to really not let things pass by me. I wanted to make the most of a football career because I was lucky to be in that place from the start and for me to obviously get my second chance in the EFL once I did return. I wasn't going to let it pass by me this time. I remember a particular moment where you looked in the mirror at a work with yourself or spoke to someone who said come on you've got a real chance here. You need to change this and change that. Was there a sliding doors moment? I'd probably say there was multiple. Obviously having the start into my professional career that I did didn't help. I've always had a lot of confidence in myself but once you go through a lot of setbacks and a lot of failures you kind of a lot of doubt creeps in. I think from that stage it was almost, I wouldn't say maybe something just clicked in me saying I had to be more aware and I had to have more of a mental capacity for this all kind of stuff and I had to improve on that side. For me from that personally I had to improve my mental side. I read countless books, I saw countless people to improve on that side of my game and I knew physically I could improve. I worked on everything and just trying to be the best version of myself. It was just down to a moment that something just clicked and I thought I've got to make most of this. I'd say I've always had that in my mind from the start. As a young lad you always dream of playing in the Premier League, playing at a World Cup and I think it's always stuck with me. I believe a lot in destiny and my Jenny believed my destiny was to be a footballer and regardless of what kind of walk of life I was living before I became a footballer I always knew if I worked hard enough I could get there. I needed a slice of luck. There's a lot of luck involved in football and Troy City gave me that slice of luck that I needed for a platform to show what I could do. The rest is history I guess. If it had been a Hollywood story of course you'd have had the setback after around Norway and then it would all be upward from there. Was it the Gillingham game? Do you mind telling me about that? Obviously I had a skull fracture which wasn't a nice year so the Gillingham game. Obviously prior to doing that I was doing well in the Barnsey team and essentially we got promoted that year anyway so it was always nice. It was a massive scare for myself, for my family to go through such a period on an up trajectory to come back down almost to reality of where that if I could maybe play football again. It was a tough one to take and obviously at the time I was doing well and the team was flying and I think there was a lot of uncertainty around that for me. I had to spend a lot of time at home doing nothing because I had to obviously recover and just let things settle. I think going through those moments only make you stronger and I saw countless consultants and medical professions to give me the go ahead and once I got the go ahead it was four systems go again. It really was. The first game back and the first time the ball goes up in the air, how did you approach it? I was another moment where I had to, I can't necessarily remember the game but I remember coming on as a sub and the first thing I knew was a goal kick. It was coming to me and I was just thinking before the ball was even kicked. This is kind of the moment that's going to define the rest of my career. It's either I give this my all or I don't and then I think if I couldn't give that moment everything a lot would have passed me by in my career and I wouldn't have been at this moment right now. Who's to say that? It's the case but as soon as I saw the ball go up and it was coming my way I thought to myself I've got to go 100% and nothing and I jumped and headed the ball and the crowd gave me a big cheer and that was it. Fantastic. I know footballers don't like looking back so thanks for talking this through. In these moments when you do look back do you allow yourself a pat on the back? Do you allow yourself to feel pride in how you've approached it and what you've achieved? I do in certain occasions but it's not often that I look back. I think for me I'm a very humble and grounded lad and I know what I've done to get to this point and obviously where I've come from. But for me now my sole focus is forward. I've got so much I want to achieve in football and I'm on the path and I believe no one can stop me and that's the way I feel about my life and football. I give everything to this and some could say it's a lot but I love what I do and obviously being from the side of football where I've come from this is everything to me and I've put so much into it and I want to make the most of everything. I won't let it pass my way back. And while you're talking we're seeing some guys who've come through the academy era of coming in and out and there's these pampered youngsters who have everything on a plate. Are there ever times when they're moaning in the dressing room that their boots aren't warm enough or the food isn't quite what they're after and you sort of stand up and let me just tell you a story? Yeah there's been plenty of moments like that and I love to have that side to me. I've been lucky enough to share dressings with players who have not quite had the same story but come from similar stories to me. I believe it's a special place to be in because you were never expected to be here and you're here on sheer determination and hard work and persistence and you haven't necessarily come through an academy where they've had everything put on a plate for them. They've essentially been travelled here and there and everything's been accustomed for them to succeed and worse you look at my side of it I've had to work hard and play football on the side of that and it's obviously a lot harder than I would say. Sometimes you look at these lads and think they've got the world on their shoulders already and there's so much potential that they could achieve and sometimes it maybe just needs a push or a little bit of a humbling to keep them on track. Now not necessarily now so we had like a work rotation so most of the days I'd be getting up at five o'clock, going to the gym, opening up at six o'clock, letting everyone in at half six and then I'd finish maybe three o'clock. Straight after three o'clock I'd do a session in the gym and then around five o'clock I'd leave if I had a training day. I'd leave for Toro which was at least an hour and a half away. Maybe get there for seven, come back and it'd be eleven o'clock and then I'd go again the next morning. Those were the kind of relentless hours and you had to do but I knew I had to do that. I knew I had to work hard if I wanted to achieve and it was tough but once you have a passion and a love for something you're willing to do that. Especially having come through all that what did it mean to you to not have to wait too long to score on your Premier League debut because a lot of players have to wait a long time for their first Premier League between debut and the first goal so what did that mean for you scoring on your Premier League debut? It meant everything. I felt like it was, I think I say this a lot but it was like a combination of all the hard work and the graft I've put in to get me to this point and for me to score on my debut. I just felt all I needed was an opportunity. I just needed one sight on goal. I have bundles of confidence in myself and as soon as I knew that ball got crossed in and I knew I was in a position to head of that ball I knew it was a goal straight away and for me to get that so early in Premier League football is amazing and something that I took great confidence from. As we sit there now you're a Premier League player you're about to go off the line up alongside the likes of Gareth Bale in a World Cup. Does this all just feel normal now or are there times when little memories just sort of float in and you break out in a big grin? I'll be honest, it all feels normal but I do sometimes have those moments where I think God I've managed to get here. It's amazing but like I said before I'm a very ambitious person and I don't like to get distracted by stuff that would not naturally take my attention away from what I want to achieve but sometimes it's good to look back and you know almost redirect yourself and to think like yeah I can keep going like I've managed to get this far this what can stop me now and you know like I said I've had countless people count me out from my career you know said I'd never reach the Premier League I've never go to a World Cup and maybe they would have been right but I didn't let them be right in my own head and I made sure that what I wanted to achieve I put my full focus and dedication and my life to get to this point.