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Monday, September 10, 2012

Bartlett Feared The Meadow End


Former Bulls keeper Adam Bartlett has told the Non-League Paper about the nightmare his final 18 months at Edgar Street were.

The former Kidderminster stopper's injury problems and loss of form left him needing to leave the Bulls 'for footballing reasons':

"In the last 18 months at Hereford, I started making silly mistakes. Some of them were horrific and I could sense the fans in the Meadow End turning.

"I could feel that maybe they didn't trust me like they should, and it started to have a negative effect. I started to feel mentally like I didn't belong, and it had a big effect on the way I was. I lost a lot of confidence both on and off the field."

Bartlett then recalls the home match with Swindon in Feburary, when he spilled a cross right into the striker's path for the winner: "You hear the stick from the fans. Not long after that the ball went into the crowd behind the goal, someone threw it back to me and I got a big cheer for catching it.

"That's off your home fans, and it just got to a point where although I was contracted there for another season on a lot better money than I'm on now, I needed to go somewhere else for footballing reasons."

Bartlett talks in the full interview in the paper about his mother's illness - she's on the road to recovery after six months of chemotherapy - and ends wishing the Bulls all the best as  he doesn't "hold anything against anyone there."