The boys were watching Sky Sports News before the Forest game and that is where they saw that I was on 199 goals.

Before that game Adie (Williams, the club skipper) came up with the shirt and told me what he wanted to do. But when I didn?t score in that game he decided to carry it over for the Derby game.

With the two-week break I had forgotten all about it and it was a good job he reminded me. We agreed that when I scored I would go over to him and he would lift up the shirt for the cameras, and it worked well when I did get that goal.

I had to score really, because I didn?t want the shirt hanging around.

It was brilliant of him to do that, it just shows what sort of guy he is ? it was really cool.

I am not big on milestones and numbers, it only really matters when you look at my ratio. Throughout my career it has been around a goal every two games, and it is important to me that is stays like that.

The 200th is important for that reason, but I can?t for the life of me remember when and where I got the 100th.

At the end of my career I can look back and be proud to have got there, but for now all I am worried about is keeping up the ratio which means scoring as often as I can.

I am not thinking ahead to things like 250 or 300, I?m just thinking about the next game ? I?ll only really worry about that sort of thing if I coming to the end of my career and I am on 248 or 249.

I?m so pleased we got the result against Derby and I am pleased we put in the performance we did.

We have had a two week break and plenty of time to work on things.

I have been concentrating on developing my understanding with my team-mates, particularly the full backs.

When things haven?t gone as well as I had hoped at Reading I tried to look back on what I had done at City to help myself and this was one of the things.

You?d think that talking to the other strikers would be the obvious thing to do but in English football, it is often the full backs who pass to the forwards so I spent some time talking with Graeme Murty and Nicky Shorey.

It was just about where I wanted them to put the ball when they pass to me. If we all know what we are doing, it can give me an extra five percent that can make all the difference.

You can?t talk to everyone at once, so I started with the full backs. It isn?t that I am going to go through the players, defence one week, midfield one week, but I am just trying to get the best understanding I can with my team-mates.

And hopefully we can take the performance from the Derby game to my old club Rotherham.

I have played against them twice since I left and not scored in either game. When I went back there with City the first time, it was bizarre ? not a lot had changed.

It is not a club that is in a position to spend a lot of money, they survive on a shoe-string, buying players for ?50,000 ($80,000) or on free transfers ? but you have to admire what they are doing there.

It is not easy for teams in that position but I have a lot of time and admiration for them.

There will be a few familiar faces when we go back there and I am looking forward to catching up with a few friends.

Last time I was there, one or two people cheered and one or two people booed, but that is how it is in football. I take the booing as a compliment and the cheers are clearly from people who appreciate what I did in my time there.