Chadwell Chatter - Michail Antonio



I was back at my old stomping ground, Tooting & Mitcham, this week to do some coaching with the youngsters. I was surprised how many people turned up. I normally come here but there have never been so many. The turnout was amazing. I might do this again!

It was great fun, running around with the young ones and then playing a little football with the Under-11s and Under-12s. There looked to be some decent players, decent passers of the ball, nice little awareness, hopefully some of the kids can make it to the league. 

They looked after me from Under-12s right up until the first team, until I finally got to Reading. I owe them a lot and I'm going to keep turning out and hopefully this can do a lot for them and get more players through the doors. 

I do think about coaching one day. It was great fun tutoring the kids and the kids want to learn. They’ve got great spirit. 

Speaking of spirit, the boys were gutted inside the dressing room on Sunday game and it shows where we've come, where you can go to Old Trafford, draw 1-1, and be gutted. We've got to push on and when the replay's at our ground get the win. 

I've never witnessed a better free-kick than Dimi’s. It was so Beckham-esque. It was an amazing free-kick and what can I say, he's an amazing player. 

Any free-kick taker would have been proud of that. Sometimes players take until the second season to get to it in the Premier League, but he's just adjusted. What a player he is.          

It is hard work playing full-back but as a winger, I go up and down anyway, so it's not much of a difference. In the game on Sunday, I was still getting up there, still trying to get on the end of Nobes' diagonal balls. 

It’s just one of those things, no matter what position you play me, I'm still going to try to get up there and get a goal. The boys seem solid and hopefully we can keep being consistent and doing what we're doing. 

We're going to go to Stamford Bridge on Saturday and try to get the three points and we believe that we can. They're on a good run, but their run's not as good as ours, so I reckon we can turn them over. 

People are starting to take notice. They probably thought we'd be a top 12 team, that kind of position, but right now we're pushing and even if we fell off right now, which I don't feel we will, I reckon we would probably finish seventh this season. 

All we can do is look forward. Last season we finished 12th, but right now we're pushing for Champions League spots. You never know, anything can happen, quarter finals of the FA Cup, last year at the Boleyn Ground, things are looking up for us.

I hear it will be Manchester United for the final game. Amazing game, what a game to end our time at the Boleyn Ground. What a game to end the Boleyn Ground on, having Manchester United, under the lights, at home. It's going to be amazing. The fans are going to be up for it, bring it on. You can't rule Manchester United out of anything, so it could be a shoot-out for Europe!