The tragic events in America this week overshadowed everything else.

Seeing those horrific TV pictures makes you feel humble.

I was feeling very down after City lost 4-0 at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday, but when all those people lose their lives in a moment, it makes you get things into perspective.

It made me appreciate my life and what I do for a living and made me think that bouncing back after a bad defeat would not be so difficult after all.

We played a League Cup tie at Notts County on Tuesday and I'm told that both clubs wanted to call off the game but they were ordered to play by the Football League. That was never revealed to the players before the match.

When I was watching the TV news in my hotel room, my first thoughts were that this game could surely not be played out of respect and that's what I said to my room mate.

From talking to others, I believe that every player thought the same. We had a 30-minute coach ride from the hotel to the ground and the terrorist attack in the US was the only topic of conversation. Normally, one or two are quiet and a few others are cracking jokes, but on Tuesday everybody was talking about the same thing.

When I heard the planes involved were flying from Boston, I thought, `Oh no'. Lots of Bermudians go to Boston and New York and I feared some of them could be involved.

As far as football goes, we were awful at West Brom. It was like the Norwich game in that we came off the back of a really good performance and then went out and played badly. West Brom were winning all the second balls, passed better than us and created better opportunities.

Kevin Keegan said one or two things in the paper, like if we played like that we would not get out of the First Division. That was fair, we were just not ourselves.

It really knocked back our confidence and I think that showed at Notts County. We scored first through Chris Shuker after about an hour, but we were not playing well at the time. But Notts County equalised and then went ahead, deservedly.

I had only two chances in the game, the first about 10 minutes from the end when the ball was rolled square to me outside the box and I shot just wide. From my second chance I scored the equaliser in the 85th minute.

It came from a long diagonal cross towards Paulo, when we were two-on-two in the box. Paulo tried to take it down, but miscontrolled it and the ball bounced away from him, about chest height and I just toe-poked it over the goalkeeper's shoulder.

That's seven goals in six games for me, which I'm pretty pleased with, considering I've only had three chances in the last two games. I would normally hope to get three or four chances per game.

The goal made it 2-2 and put the game into extra time and goals from Paul Dickov and Darren Huckerby gave us a 4-2 win which we badly needed. Had we lost, we would have been in a bad time and everybody would have been saying, `this is the time to play City'.

Our confidence was low during the match. I've been in the game long enough to know there are only a few teams who can bounce back from a 4-0 defeat to go out and play well and win 3-0 or 4-0.

For me, confidence is everything and it comes down to belief. If you took the best player and the most confident player, I would back the confident player to come out on top. The confident player believes he is better than his rival, while the good player can lose confidence when he does one or two things that don't come off.

You could see by little things how much our confidence had been dented by Saturday. For example, when a midfielder got the ball with time to turn, he was passing it back to the person who just gave it to him.

I got injured in scoring the goal - I got a kick on the calf from a defender - but I should be fit for Saturday's game against Birmingham.

I've had some treatment, some massage and today I guess I will be in some pain, but I will do some jogging at about walking pace just to give it some movement. Then I should be back in training on Friday.

Saturday's home game against Birmingham City, which will be screened live on TV, is just what we need - a big game against a big club which will give the fans the chance to really get behind us.