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I feel like a footballer again
erby County fans could be forgiven for thinking Lyle Taylor has it in for their embattled club.
The on-loan striker scored his first Birmingham City goal in Sunday’s dramatic 2-2 draw, applying a neat finish that seemed to set Blues en route to an impressive victory.
Fifteen months ago the Rams were also the opposition when Taylor opened his Nottingham Forest account, in a 1-1 draw at the City Ground.
But as symbolic as both occasions were, the 31-year-old insists he has nothing in for the Pride Park outfit, quite the contrary in fact.
“It [scoring on his debut] was kind of written,” he told BirminghamLive. “With the way things are here – and I hope to God this football club survives because we don’t need any more of that happening in English football, any more clubs going under to anything like that.
“From a Derby point of view it was also kind of written they would stage some kind of fight back when they are backed by 32,500 people.
“The whole thing was kind of scripted in a weird way by the footballing gods.”
Those gods have not been especially kind to Taylor in the last couple of years.
The striker was firing on all cylinders when in March 2020 the pandemic effectively ended his Charlton Athletic career, as he chose not to return when the Addicks resumed their Fruitless attempt to remain in the Championship.
Instead he moved to Forest in that off-season, since when he has had a difficult time, playing in a side that struggled under Chris Hughton and missing the boat when Steve Cooper replaced him.
After just eight goals in a season-and-a-half he decided to be reunited with Lee Bowyer at Birmingham City.