"I'm a fan when I sit in the stands at Coventry - but I've also tended to look at it from a players' point of view, said the striker again linked with a move back to his home town club to John Curtis. "Players can be heroes one minute, villains the next.
"Fans pay their money so they are entitled to have a moan if they feel that someone should be scoring a goal or doing something that they're not.
"If I start crumbling because a few fans get on my back at St Andrews, then I am really a weak person.
"I won't let that affect me because, if you score a couple of goals, then you are a hero again and loved again.
"You can hear them, of course you can. You are a human being. But you have just got to rise above them and be stronger than them.
"I took a whole lot of praise last season, which was great and really appreciated.
"But everyone goes through a little bad spell in their career where fans get at them - and it is only a minority."