No room for sentiment when Cahill goes back to Villa with Bolton

13 April 2012

Gary Cahill goes back to Aston Villa on Saturday warning his Holte End fan club that he is desperate to score for relegation-haunted Bolton after a £4.5million switch from Villa Park in January.

The England Under-21 centre-half is guaranteed a warm reception on his return thanks to the spectacular strike that helped inflict a 3-1 victory over derby rivals Birmingham two years ago.

Villa fans made him Player of the Year for that iconic overhead volley but Cahill believes Bolton are due a couple of bread-and-butter goals from set-pieces to boost their survival struggle.

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Cahill, close to an England squad place after impressing Fabio Capello, said: "I'm still waiting to get off the mark and that's probably the only thing in my game at the moment that's frustrating me.

"When I signed for Bolton I thought I'd probably get two goals before the end of the season. I still feel that I'm going to do that. And if players in different postions can chip in, that can only help us."

Villa fans know only too well that Cahill has the nose for a goal - and the celebration to go with it.

He said: "Villa fans were brilliant to me. That bizarre goal put me on the scene - we needed the results ourselves and it was a tense derby, 1-1 at the time when I found myself up in the box.

"The ball was up in the air and just out of instinct, I volleyed it. I thought if I waited for it to come down it would be cleared, and if I jumped to head it I wouldn't get enough power to trouble the keeper.

"It was amazing when it hit the net. I'll never forget that feeling - it wasn't the winner, but it was the turning point, and in front of the Holte End. You couldn't write a better script if you tried.

"It went crazy. As I ran to the fans everyone jumped on my back and I ended up in the crowd. So I thought, 'well, I'm in there now, enjoy it'. I'll take a yellow card for a goal like that."

Cahill, one of Bolton's three former Villa players with Gavin McCann and Jlloyd Samuel, had been at Villa since he was 13.

He said: "It was hard to leave, but I needed to establish myself in a team."

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