TONY WATT has come a long way since scoring once of Celtic's most famous ever goals - but not in the manner he would have liked.

In an searingly honest interview with South London Press, the young man who looked to have the world at his feet after THAT moment against Barcelona has openly admitted his game is as bad as it has ever been.

It has been a long fall from grace.

Now at Charlton Athletic, and still only 21, Watt has not scored for seven matches and his team have slipped into the lower half of the Championship.

And to his credit, he is not hiding behind the fact that things are not going well.

Watt said: "I’ve been poor recently and I know I have. Huddersfield was the worst game of my career. If I went right then I should have gone left, if I went left I should have gone right. I got every decision wrong.

“I was poor in the Rotherham game and against Fulham I was terrible. Ever since I got injured against Dagenham, when one of their players caught my calf, it has been in my head that I’m not as sharp as I should be.

"I was out for three and a half weeks and it was the first time in my career I’ve been injured.

“I don’t know what’s up. I can’t put my finger on it and I know I can be so much better. It is killing me and it is killing the gaffer (Guy Luzan). I can tell he is frustrated with how I’m playing because he knows I can be better.

“I’ve spoken to him - he has been absolutely brilliant in encouraging me. I think if the gaffer didn’t know me I’d probably have been off after 60-70 minutes in the last three or four games.

"But he knows that even if I’m having a bad game I can do one wee thing that will still help. I haven’t been doing enough.

“I set a high standard at the start of the season but there has been no middle ground - either I’m very good or very bad. I need to be more consistent and I know that.

“When it is going wrong you don’t get that lucky break. It’s why the international break was brilliant for me. I’ve looked back at what I’ve done wrong and had time to reflect. In training the past few days I’ve felt really sharp.

“I don’t think when I play well that the team plays well - just that if the strikers do their job it takes the pressure off the others if you hold the ball up or go on a run.”

Watt looked set for a great career at Celtic, but his attitude was questioned during a loan spell with Lierse in Belgium and then a move to Standard Liege did not work out.

And now he is struggling again. Badly.

Watt said: "I put my hands up - I should have scored more. I should have scored at Cardiff and there have been a couple more chances that if I was doing well they’d go in for me. But when it goes badly then it keeps going badly until you get that break.

“My dad always tells me ‘all you need is confidence, because you know you can do it’. If I’m not confident I’m terrible - that’s the bottom line.

"I just need to believe in myself and it will all be fine.”