Roberts plays with broken leg for an hour!

Last updated : 11 May 2005 By Paul Farrington
The newly crowned player of the season told the clubs official website: "I ended up taking a knock and fractured my fibula, and I'm six weeks out with no weight on it but I should be back in time for training with the rest of the boys for the new season. It'll heal no problem.

"I find it a bit strange myself how I managed to get through the rest of the game for the fifty or sixty minutes that I played with it, but I just had to do what we needed to ensure we got promotion."

"It's sinking in a little bit [Promotion], but it still feels strange that we've actually done it now. We always believed in ourselves that we finally would, and now we have done it, so it's really good."The 27-year old was then questioned if he would welcome the inevitable influx of new blood into the squad over the summer.

"I would be happy to see new players here, if you're going to be at a club that's always going forward, then new players are always going to come and your place is always going to be under threat, so hopefully that will be the situation.

"I won't put a number on how many players are going to come here, you'll have to ask the manager that, but whatever he wants to do, then that's fine by me. We will still have to fight for our place, which is the way it should be."

"That would depend on what players come in right at the start, but we've just arrived in this league, so I won't say that we can beat anyone, or do this and that. I think all areas of the team ban be improved including up front, and we'll have to fight for places."

"I'm not really looking forward to playing against any particular opposition as such. The prize I am looking for is just for us to perform well, I am just looking forward to making sure this club stays in the Premier League the season after next."