sentences:  Despite achieving national attention by allegedly punching West Ham United's Romanian international Florin Răducioiu in a friendly later that month (his first game for the Gulls) he settled in well at Plainmoor in terms of first-team football.However travelling in from Dorchester was causing him problems and on 24 March 1997, after falling out with the management team, he was released on full pay until the end of the season.He returned the following season and finished it as the club's player of the year with an appearance at Wembley in the playoff final defeat at the hands of Colchester United, Gittens giving away a harshly awarded penalty.