Robbie Fowler

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#end #get #goal #goes #i

After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#another #charge #down #europe #fringes

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#flattering #image #most #stuck

I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#deal #even #even now #get #go

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#arm #around #bit #career #certain

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#boy #expected #i #like #men

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#everyone #get #last #leaving #man

It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#because #contract #even #everyone #i

Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#ball #because #been #blokes #decent

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#down #except #fried #got #had