Tooting & Mitcham fans may have needed a few boxes of Kleenex last week when Jamie Byatt announced he was leaving - but they might not have seen the last of their hero just yet.

After four seasons with the club - which included working in their bar, The Hub - Byatt quit at the start of this month, citing non-footballing reasons, and joined Ryman Division One South side Merstham.

The 29 year-old, who missed almost a year's football with a partly torn medial collateral ligament and a snapped anterior cruciate ligament in 2010, probably used a few Kleenex himself when he decided to leave but he offered supporters a ray of hope by insisting this may not be end of his Terrors fairytale.

"I am gutted that I have gone," he said.

"But it was my choice and I have nothing bad to say about the club.

"I have a lot of time for Tooting & Mitcham - the supporters there are fantastic, they looked after me when I was injured and words cannot describe it really.

"I just decided to move on and maybe, you never know, I might go back.

"I didn't want to go but I wasn't enjoying it and it was to do with certain things going on behind the scenes.

"I am the sort of person that is not going to continue when I am not enjoying it - so I decided to look for something else that might help me start enjoying it and then you never know what will happen.

"I have dropped down a division but I have a few mates that play at Merstham and hopefully I can start enjoying it again."

Byatt, who scored 37 goals in 133 appearances, has a lot of memories from his four seasons at Imperial Fields but two stick out in his mind.

"When we got to the first round of the FA Cup and when we got promoted," he said.

"We had to go to Eastbourne Town on a Tuesday night and beat them to get to play at Stockport County in the cup.

"It is not so much the Stockport match I look back on as that wasn't a great result, it was more the Eastbourne game that got us there.

"The play-off final win against Cray Wanderers when Billy Smith was in charge was a highlight too - we went to Magaluf as a squad after."

Wade Small snatched the Terrors a point with a late equaliser in Saturday's 2-2 draw with Horsham, after Charlie Stimson had given them the lead.

They go to high-flying Met Police on Saturday.