Super Eagles and Bolton Wanderers power defender, Danny Shittu has reiterated his readiness to shame his critics who have believed he can not make it in big time football.

The former Watford defender told an English daily that he always knew he could play in the Premiership, even though his first experience in 2006 ended in relegation for his club, Watford.

"When I was 15, I used to watch Match of the Day and say, 'I'm just as good as these players or better'," he said in The Mirror.

"I do a lot of talks with kids, to get them to believe. When I used to go on trials, my friends used to laugh at me and say, 'You're wasting your time'. But who's laughing now?"

Shittu has spent most of his professional career in the second tier of English football, plying his trade with the likes of Charlton Athletic, Blackpool and Queens Park Rangers.

He is set to start in Tuesday night's Carling Cup match against Northampton.