Gillingham’s former Bristol City striker Seb Palmer-Houlden looks ahead to playing Bristol Rovers in League 2 this Saturday

Gillingham’s Bristol-born striker Seb Palmer-Houlden insists ‘it’s just another game’ ahead of his first senior match in his home city.

Palmer-Houlden signed for the Gills from Bristol City in the summer and is preparing to take on their bitter city rivals Bristol Rovers this Saturday.

The striker made it as a professional with Bristol City but never played a first-team match for them. He’d had a short time at Rovers when he first started playing football, but admitted the move wasn’t for him.

Now 21, Palmer-Houlden’s forging a career for himself in the lower leagues of the EFL and will be hoping to add another goal to the tally against Rovers this weekend.

He said: “It's just another game for me at the end of the day. Where it is, it doesn't matter. Wherever you play, I just try to do my best.

“It will be nice for my friends to see me play at a club that maybe they support, and that’s brilliant. I enjoy every moment I have in football, and it's given me so many so far. It'd be nice to have another big one on the weekend.

“I've got a few boys there who dropped me a message or two about the game coming up. It’ll be good and obviously a lot of my family will be going to this one, so it'd be good for me on a personal note to get a win as well.”

Commenting on his time at Rovers when he was a kid, he said: “I was on trial there when I was about seven and I didn't enjoy it at the time.

“There's a big pressure on kids at such a young age, and I just wanted to enjoy my football. I’d do everything with my old man, and he said ‘The best thing for you is to go and enjoy your football again’.

“I went back to playing at my local club and then fortunately I got picked up at City when I was a bit older.”

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