Not many supporters will know that I had leukaemia when I was younger and I had to undergo treatment for two years.

The biggest course lasted eight months and was followed by about a year-and-a-half on tablets at home. It was tough but life is something you have to fight for.

I didn't know if I'd ever be able to play football again because the doctors told me my career was finished and things like that give you a different view of life.

Now, I try to enjoy every game. I give my best and do everything possible to get a victory.

Every game is important to me because I've lost a lot of time and want to prove myself but it's important to me that I enjoy my football and that's certainly true since I've arrived at Charlton.

I scored with my first touch to help us to defeat Sheffield United at the start of the month. I had never scored with my first touch before and it's the sort of thing that might only happen once in your career.

I was happy about it because it was an important game.

Before I came on, I was doing my warm-up and I told one of the other players that I felt that the first team to score at that point would go on to win - and so it proved!

I've scored two goals so far but I'm still getting to know my team-mates and a good understanding comes from playing matches together.

This is a difficult league to play in and we need to win games against teams like Tranmere Rovers, with whom we drew on Saturday, but there will be frustrations during the season.

Tranmere also complained after the game about the penalty we received. I think it was given for a foul on me but although we're not completely sure, there was a lot of fouling going on.

We are still unbeaten and started the week with a three-point gap at the top of the table, so things are going well. We know what we've got to do. This is a big club with a good family atmosphere and everybody involved wants to help win promotion - this club should, at the minimum, be in the Championship.