Even by the exceptional standards of the last few months Bobby Z's wonderful goal at Bury was my magic moment of the season so far.

The young man proved, yet again, what a natural goalscorer he is with a simply magnificent effort.

I have to admit that I wasn't the only player in our team to start cursing him when he decided to shoot from so far out. Time stood still and the whole ground went quiet as the ball arched towards the goal. Then the Brighton fans massed behind the goal started to celebrate, as they knew the shot was going in.

Was there any doubt he would miss the target? Superb! Even Bolton manager Sam Allardyce was impressed. Apparently he turned to the bloke sitting next to him in the stand and said: "What a ****** finish that was," before getting up and leaving.

As you may expect the dressing room was buzzing afterwards but Bobby remained totally unfazed. He was more worried about his overall performance than talking about his wonder goal. He responds to all the talk and speculation in his own inimitable way - by putting the ball in the net.

The gaffer changed our tactics for the Bury match and it worked a treat. We thoroughly deserved the points and were delighted to silence a few critics by scoring more than one goal in a game. Bozzie gave us all a laugh by trying to claim the first goal but he turned in an excellent display on his return to the side.

We prepared for the Bury match by using the Liverpool training ground at Melwood. Their facilities are second to none. Lovely pitches, massive changing rooms, sauna, jacuzzi, massage beds, restaurant, swimming pool, televisions and, the most important luxury to our lads, heated dressing room floors! Very similar to our facilities at Falmer in other words. Some things never change on Merseyside though. When we came to leave we found our coach up on bricks!

There was also a special celebrity staying at our hotel in Wigan. For those of you wondering whatever happened to Eric Cantona I can reveal he is alive, well and working as a hotel waiter. You may guess that there were many shouts of ooh aah Cantona from our dinner table as well as orders for seagulls from the trawler!

With the gaffer deciding to rotate the squad for the Cambridge cup-tie the lads who had played at Bury were given a rare chance for some rest and relaxation. After two days of being subjected to Christmas shopping and DIY chores around the house however, I couldn't wait to get back to work! I can't believe it costs more to run my wife's shopping trolley than it does my car!

Somebody who has been working hard is John 'Kajagoogoo' Keeley - the original boy band lookalike. JK now has three jobs. Not only is he kit man and goalkeeping coach but he was also on the substitutes' bench at Cambridge. How will he ever have time to put more highlights in his hair this week?

Pingu Pitcher has won the quote of the week award yet again and will now keep the trophy by virtue of putting his foot in his mouth every time he speaks. Pingu was fined for wearing his woolly training hat to go home in because you are allowed to wear it for training in only. "But I've got two of these hats," he protested. "They are identical."

"So how do you know that one was not your training hat?" asked Watto. "Because that hat is different," replied Pingu.

I also loved Steve 'Ketsbaia' Melton's quote after the defeat at Cambridge. Melts scored our goal but then had a hand in both of the home teams goals. "If I had stayed at home it would have been a 0-0 draw," said Melts.

Finally it's nearly time for the players' Christmas party. The theme this year is to get dressed up in bad taste gear. I'm just off to Robbie Pethick's house to see if I can borrow some clobber out of his wardrobe!