Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor admits he's had a difficult six months for club and country.

Adebayor was on the scoresheet for City in last night's win over Bolton Wanderers.

Suspended in September after a controversial win over his old team Arsenal, Adebayor told City's website: "It took a while to get that out of my head, but after Angola I'm just happy to be on a football pitch.

"When it happened on January 8, a Friday, around 2pm, I told myself that I might never be on a football pitch again, that I might never score goals any more. But God took a hand.

"Some people passed away, and you have to be playing for them now - every time you put the shirt on, you have to be scoring for them. You have to enjoy it.

"I could have been buried somewhere. I love scoring goals but whenever I do now, I say 'yes, you are scoring goals - you could be in a coffin now, you could be in Paradise, I don't know.' It's very hard."