Jody Morris

Jody Steven Morris ( born December 22, 1978 in London) is an English footballer.

Club career

Jody Morris played in his youth at Chelsea, one of London's biggest football clubs, and got there in 1995 his first professional contract. At the age of 17 he made ​​his debut in the 5-0 win against Middlesbrough FC on February 4, 1996. Late 1990s, Chelsea has developed into a top team, in part because the former coach Ruud Gullit repeatedly to numerous well-known signings care. For Morris, it was therefore very difficult as a young player against the great competition in the midfield such as Dennis Wise, Roberto Di Matteo, Gustavo Poyet or enforce. In autumn 2000, Claudio Ranieri came across as reinforced the team with other top players such as Frank Lampard and coach the club. The state of Jody Morris therefore remained under the Italian coach rather at a reserve player. Nevertheless, he remained loyal to the club for eight years and made it to 124 League Appearances. Although he usually acted only as a reserve player and in many finals did not play, Morris won with Chelsea many titles. In 2000 he won with the Londoners the FA Cup, the 1998 European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup and in 2000 the FA Community Shield.

For the season 2003/ 04 Jody Morris moved to Leeds United, but the end of the season descended from the Premier League. Even before the descent it was clear the midfielder from Leeds was suspended for alleged rape and bound by the then second division side Rotherham United. He remained there for only four months and moved in July 2004 to FC Millwall. For the lions Morris made ​​over 60 missions and remained true to the club, as he descended into the third division in 2006. He has long been out of action by a cheekbone fracture and a torn ACL and was discharged at the end of the 2006/07 season, after only four missions in the first team at Millwall. A then the following short test time at Premier League relegated Charlton Athletic brought no countable success, which is why Morris did fit in the connection with the fourth division FC Brentford.

End of February 2008, wrote the first English short contract with Scottish club FC St. Johnstone. The coach there at this time was his former teammates at FC Millwall Derek McInnes. After the end of the season his contract was extended and Morris played until 2012 for the Scots. Then he again followed the now migrated to Bristol City manager McInnes. After half a year at the Robins his contract was dissolved.

National

Morris graduated four games for the English U-20 national team, which has participated in the Junior World Cup in 1997.

Title

  • English Cup Winners: 2000
  • European Cup Winners' Cup: 1998
  • UEFA Super Cup: 1998
  • FA Community Shield: 2000

Antics

Jody Morris made ​​during his professional career by negative headlines repeatedly point next to the field to itself. He is said to have belonged to a group of Chelsea players who has offended shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, a group of American tourists at London Heathrow Airport. He was also involved with John Terry in a brawl in a London nightclub, and the rape of a 20 - year-old woman was accused in 2003. On November 1, 2006, he was arrested when he went against the direction of a one-way street drunk. Since he was caught for the second time drunk driving, he got four years driving ban, 80 hours of work and two years on probation.

In a 2001 conducted by the British newspaper The Guardian election to the footballer with the worst behavior, Morris was eighth.

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