QPR midfielder Kieron Dyer won't snap back at West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan ahead of tonight's game.
Sullivan suggested Dyer should retire back in 2010 due to his woeful injury record.
But Dyer refuses to get into a war of words with his former boss, and insists he's not surprised at the flack that came his way.
"That's the way the game is," he told the Fulham Chronicle. "If you're not playing then you are not affecting what can happen for West Ham so you get called every name under the sun.
"Even though the owners came out and said some harsh things about me at the time, I think they've done an incredible job.
"I got on really well with Karen Brady and never will have a bad word to say about anyone at that football club.
"Hopefully I'll play on Monday and if we scored I wouldn't celebrate because I wouldn't want to disrespect the fans at all."