Glenn Murray has revealed he has no recollection of the knockout blow he suffered at Newcastle.

But he will remember the match which followed for a long time as he scored his 100th goal for Albion.

Murray started against Wolves just a week after suffering concussion in a clash with Toon defender Federico Fernandez.

He talked The Argus through what been “quite a long week” and how boss Chris Hughton left the decision whether or not to play up to him.

Murray said: “It has been quite a long week, to be honest.

“It’s been a gradual week, obviously quite groggy the first few days.

“I took a bit of time out last weekend.

“Then just gradually building up and doing all the protocol to get back to play, through the FA schedule.

“It resulted in me training with the first team on Friday and thankfully the gaffer showed a lot of faith in me and restored me to the starting XI.”

Asked about the protocols in place, he said: “It was sort of memory tests and then building my physical stuff up gradually and making sure there has been no aftermath, no bad heads and things like that.

“And there wasn’t, thankfully. And then it was my call.

“It was a six days return to play schedule, and the club and the gaffer left it up to me.”

Asked when he made the big call, Murray said with a laugh: “About Tuesday! No, not really.

“Obviously I started thinking about it then and it all went to plan and I passed all my tests.”

Whether by accident or design, Albion sent a long ball on to his head within a few seconds of kick-off.

He duly rose and nodded it on – no problem.

Murray said: “I can’t remember the impact (with Fernandez) so there was nothing to be scared of.

“And it’s the old adage of when you fall off a bike you get back on it and you ride again, don’t you?

“It was just about getting back out there, getting into a header, getting a bit of physical contact and I was fine.

“I don’t remember much at all from the (Newcastle) game, a couple of incidents maybe and obviously I wasn’t on the pitch long.

“I just worked with the medical team quite a lot this week and they were brilliant, as they were, and Newcastle, were last weekend.

“It is what it is and thankfully I was fit to play.”

Murray was involved in the build-up before guiding home an expert one-touch finish right in front of the North Stand.

He recalled: “I got it into my chest from a throw-in and lifted it into an area in the box.

“Bruno’s cross – I think it was probably a shot - found me.

“I sorted my feet out and it was just about getting good purchase on the ball.

“The speed on the ball did my work for me.

“It was just about getting a good foot on it and getting it on target and it hit the back of the net.”

While Murray savoured the “one” part of the scoreline, he was just as pleased with the “nil”.

He added: “A lot of people maybe questioned our start and things but we sit down as a group, as a team and we look at the up and coming fixtures and we knew we were in for a tough start.

“We took the pressure off ourselves against Manchester United at home but we are not really meant to get anything from the Man United and Liverpool games.

“We pushed Liverpool quite hard at Anfield and I think we did well at both Anfield and the Etihad and they never ran away with the game.

“We were in the game for long periods.

“A lot of teams go up there and get spanked and lose confidence but we never did that.

“But they are not the games we are meant to win, even though we go into them trying to get points.

“We earmarked the West Ham game at home after those tough games against Man City, Liverpool and Tottenham and got three points there to set us off on a good foot.

“Last weekend against a relegation candidate, we got another three points and then (on Saturday) another big three points.

“But I think it’s all to do with getting back to last year’s basics which we struggled to at the start of this year, which is keeping clean sheets. That’s what our success was built on last year and we’ve managed to get back to that in the last three games.

“If we keep the back door closed, we always back ourselves to take one or two chances.”

And if Murray was the matchwinner at one end, then Mathew Ryan was at the other.

Murray said: “He is massive for us and he just goes from strength to strength. He has come into the Premier League last season and proves any doubters wrong all the time.

“He is very highly regarded in our dressing room.”