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Richard Forrester

Bristol City's one-hit wonder Tommy Conway is loving living with Alex Scott despite the rivalry

There's a divide in Tommy Conway and Alex Scott's flat separated by the red half and white half.

Although it has nothing to do with Bristol City. Their rivalry away from the dart board and "two-touch" on their balcony stems down to North London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham.

With Conway an Arsenal fan and Scott a supporter of Spurs, there's constant banter flying around their Bristol pad when they're away from the Ashton Gate pitch. I suppose not everyone's perfect, after all.

"He's still a Spurs fan and I'm still an Arsenal fan," Conway said after scoring City's second in a 2-0 victory over Luton. "At the weekend we watched Super Sunday Chelsea versus Tottenham and when Spurs scored a last minute equaliser he was going mental.

"I just walked out of the room, I couldn't deal with it. He was giving me all sorts but it's lucky Arsenal started alright so we've both got the bragging rights."

There's every chance in the future that Scott could end up representing Tottenham with Antonio Conte's side one of many Premier League sides to have scouted the wonderkid. Although they will face stiff competition from plenty of other top-flight outfits when that time inevitably arrives.

Conway, 20, is 380 days older than Scott and while their City careers are at different stages, the striker is taking motivation from his close mate to grasp his opportunity with both hands.

Scott's breakthrough campaign came last season and he hasn't looked back since, including winning the Euros for England's Under-19 side this summer, while Conway is proving he is next in the line of City's conveyor belt of talent after scoring three goals in his last three matches.

After netting City's second on Tuesday night to pick up their first three points of the season, Scott was one of the first to sprint over to his mate before giving him a big embrace on the touchline.

While that competitive edge is healthy motivation for the duo to maintain their form, Conway knows the importance of switching off when they get back to the flat as they talk about anything and everything except the most recent match.

"The first day he got back (from the Euros) he hung up his shirt and medal up on the wall and I walked into the lounge with his medal on. We just try and fill our team by having fun with each other because ultimately we're both away from our families.

"We had to get rid of the dartboard because we're in a place where we do hit the dart in the wrong place we could get in trouble for it.

"We have a balcony now so we might be out playing two-touch and there might be a little punishment at the end of it. So we built a close bond and we speak to each other about anything really so I think that helps us when we go into training because we've got each other.

"He's so down to earth, we get home from a game and we talk about anything but the game. We talk about completely different things.

"He speaks to his family every day. We're always going to bed on time and eating right. He likes to think he's the better cook but I disagree so we like to have competition but I haven't got a bad word to say about the guy."

Conway is obviously a hugely popular member of the squad. Having been with the academy since the age of seven, he is already considered part of the furniture but it's not just his footballing ability that has caught the eye.

After signing his contract, the striker was tasked with an initiation song where he rapped a rendition of Dave's hit song 'Thiago Silva', much to the hilarity of his team-mates and coaches who were in fits of laughter.

"As a scholar, you had to spin the wheel if you did something wrong, for example turning up late to training," he added. "On the wheel, there was 'sing' and I thought if I had a go-to song I thought I'll be alright. So I practiced it for that, span and wheel and did it.

"Everyone was buzzing off it and I did it for the first-team at Swansea after I scored and they were all loving it. And that's why they wanted me to do it when I signed my new deal so I did it again.

"Every opportunity when someone would sing they would try to get me up. So my latest rendition was to shut them up and I thought I'd do it one more time but I think that will be me for the time being."

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