Chris Morris Interview - September 1997

Chris Morris's retirement reduces to six the number of Lennie Lawrence's signings still at the club

Although Morris would never have claimed to be the crowd's favourite - defenders rarely are -he was a useful and by all accounts a popular player with his fellow professionals.

Chris Morris was born in Cornwall on Christmas Eve 1963, and was brought up in the area, playing football for England Schools.Although, like most lads he harboured ambitions to play professionally , he did not expect it to happen: " I was six weeks away from starting a PE teacher training course when I was invited to have a trial with Sheffield Wednesday.