Lee Morris’ promise to Harriers
Monday 26th July 2010, 8:45AM BST.
One-time £3million man Lee Morris insists Kidderminster Harriers will see him back at his best after insisting his injury woes are behind him.
The 30-year-old opened his goalscoring account for the club on his home debut in the 3-0 friendly win over a young Nottingham Forest side at Aggborough on Saturday, striking up a good rapport with Chris McPhee who bagged the other two.
Morris has led a nomadic existence since his big money move from first club Sheffield United to Derby County in 1999, with Harriers his sixth port of call in four years since leaving Leicester in 2006.
It’s even his third foray in non-league football, after a successful year at runaway champions Burton in 2008/09 along with loan spells at Mansfield and Forest Green Rovers this year.
The former England under-21 international spent last season in the Football League with Hereford but had a big falling out with manager John Trewick, and it’s that unhappy spell at Edgar Street that Morris believes has made people doubt he still possesses the tools to fully shine.
His critics argue that the Derby-based striker has never fully recovered from the serious knee injury that plagued his last spell in the Championship at Leicester, but the player insists he will do everything in his power to prove them wrong in a Harriers shirt over the duration of his one-year contract.
He said: “I don’t feel I have got anything to prove, I know that I can play and if I get a run of games under my belt I will be OK.
“If I play enough games the goals will come, wherever I have been I have done that because I have always been confident in my ability.
“My career could have gone differently if I hadn’t have had those injuries, but that is the way it has turned out.
“It’s frustrating to be always talking about it, they are in the past, but because I have kept on moving and moving that is the first thing people think.
“It’s down to me to prove them wrong, which I have no problems in trying to do.”
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