FORMER Bolton Wanderers player and current Crystal Palace midfielder Sasa Curcic has spoken of his sadness and sense of puzzlement over the NATO air offensive that is blitzing his homeland.

After attending an anti-war protest alongside 700 other Serbs outside Downing Street, Curcic, 27, said: "We weren't making a disturbance but we want the English people to know our feelings.

Curcic was born in Belgrade and his father Toza and mother Ramila live there with his sister, Snezana.

"Why should English and American airmen be killing our people and putting lives in danger?", he said.

"Why, when I go to training, am I put in a position where I am an enemy of the other players? I do not understand it. They do not understand it either. We are peaceful people."

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