Shittu gets Bolton Carling start

Bolton Wanderers defencer, Danny Shittu says he is out to shame critics who did not think he could make it in big time football.

Shittu told the mirror that he always knew he could play in the premiership even though is first experience in 2006 ended in relegation for his club, Watford.

"When I was 15 I used to watch Match of the Day and say, 'I'm just as good as these players or better'," he said in The Mirror.

"I do a lot of talks with kids, to get them to believe. When I used to go on trials, my friends used to laugh at me and say, 'You're wasting your time'. But who's laughing now?"

Shittu has spent most of his professional career in the second tier of English football, plying his trade with the likes of Charlton Athletic, Blackpool and Queens Park Rangers.

Shittu is set to start in Tuesday night’s Carling Cup match against Northampton.