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This is on the Wednesday Rivals site (must amdit I didn't see it in the press here)
Wednesday manager Chris Turner has been blasted by former Owls loanee Leon Knight, now with this weekends opponents Brighton. Knight described Turner as disrespectful and claims he nearley quit the game as a result of the treatment he received.
Knight joined Wednesday in the summer of 2002 on a season long loan from Chelsea by then manager Terry Yorath but according to Knight it all went wrong when Yorath was deservedly sacked in November after an appalling start to the season, being replaced by Chris Turner. "When he came in my whole world collapsed really," Knight told the local Brighton press.
"I took it back home with me to my family and I was in real distress. All I want to do is play football and he stopped me from doing that."
"Turner said I didn't fit into his style of play, as he wanted a team of big boys who basically lump it and win the flicks on, just battle and don't really get the ball down on the floor.
"I had to take a sidestep for about seven months which was the most terrible time of my whole career. I was even thinking of packing the game in.
"He was just the most disrespectful man I have ever come across. I was one of the better trainers there, but he pulled me up and said I wasn't putting it in and gave me two weeks and I put everything into it and he still fobbed me off.
"That's what I didn't like. You were not getting played on merit there. No matter what he wasn't going to play you."
Knight will come face to face with Wednesday this Saturday at the Withdean, and he has impressed there after making his loan period from Chelsea permanent, and Knight will be keen to prove a point.
"When people do something to me like that it spurs you on even more, I always said I will play against him one day and I will be bang on my game. I just want to show him on Saturday that I can play, because he made me think that I couldn't."
Leon was true to his word - he terrified them every time he had the ball at his feet. Interesting to see the Wednesday fans opinions of him - many of them seem to see him as a lazy prima-donna. Well, he ran himself into the ground today before going off injured. Top marks to the little fella.
Wednesday manager Chris Turner has been blasted by former Owls loanee Leon Knight, now with this weekends opponents Brighton. Knight described Turner as disrespectful and claims he nearley quit the game as a result of the treatment he received.
Knight joined Wednesday in the summer of 2002 on a season long loan from Chelsea by then manager Terry Yorath but according to Knight it all went wrong when Yorath was deservedly sacked in November after an appalling start to the season, being replaced by Chris Turner. "When he came in my whole world collapsed really," Knight told the local Brighton press.
"I took it back home with me to my family and I was in real distress. All I want to do is play football and he stopped me from doing that."
"Turner said I didn't fit into his style of play, as he wanted a team of big boys who basically lump it and win the flicks on, just battle and don't really get the ball down on the floor.
"I had to take a sidestep for about seven months which was the most terrible time of my whole career. I was even thinking of packing the game in.
"He was just the most disrespectful man I have ever come across. I was one of the better trainers there, but he pulled me up and said I wasn't putting it in and gave me two weeks and I put everything into it and he still fobbed me off.
"That's what I didn't like. You were not getting played on merit there. No matter what he wasn't going to play you."
Knight will come face to face with Wednesday this Saturday at the Withdean, and he has impressed there after making his loan period from Chelsea permanent, and Knight will be keen to prove a point.
"When people do something to me like that it spurs you on even more, I always said I will play against him one day and I will be bang on my game. I just want to show him on Saturday that I can play, because he made me think that I couldn't."
Leon was true to his word - he terrified them every time he had the ball at his feet. Interesting to see the Wednesday fans opinions of him - many of them seem to see him as a lazy prima-donna. Well, he ran himself into the ground today before going off injured. Top marks to the little fella.
