The explosive Sean Morrison interview as he brands Cardiff City manager ‘weak’

The explosive Sean Morrison interview as he brands Cardiff City manager ‘weak’

The ex-Bluebirds captain and fans’ favourite has bared all in a new interview

Former Cardiff City captain Sean Morrison has bared all in a candid and wide-ranging interview about his old club.

Morrison is a Bluebirds legend, having amassed 295 appearances over eight years with the club and captaining City in the Premier

League.

The centre-back, 33, officially left Cardiff in January 2023 almost a year after suffering a horrendous ACL injury away to Barnsley

during Steve Morison’s reign as manager.

But the intervening period after sustaining that injury in that freezing cold clash at Barnsley, Morrison admits that times were tough.

The operation and subsequent rehabilitation was gruelling, while Morrison’s contract was set to run out at the end of July.

Any footballer will tell you that is a precarious position to find yourself in, but in a video which has gone viral since the interview went

live late on Sunday night, Morrison revealed one situation which left himself feeling extremely disappointed.

“Matty May, the physio, rang me and said ‘You need to speak to Steve [Morison], Steve just rang me, he doesn’t want you to come in

and do your rehab in the morning, he wants you in at two o’clock every day’,” he told The Central Club podcast

“Lo and behold, he s*** his little pants and said I could come in at nine o’clock. I said, ‘I’ll come in when the physios tell me to come in,

I’ll stay out of your hair and I won’t get in the way.’

“Then I come in the next day, the day before all the boys come in and he’s acting like he’s my best mate and he ended up getting this

injury contract for me so I could get insured once I started training again. But it’s f****** bonkers. It’s like the biggest U-turn ever. It

was mad.”

Looking back over his time at the club, Morrison opened up on his introduction to Cardiff, with 45 first-team players and cliques

between the foreign players and British players, describing the dressing room as a “mess” and a “shambles” until Russell Slade took

over from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. In fact, after his first week, he admitted phoning his agent and telling him he’d made a mistake by

leaving Reading.

Morrison said that promotion season under Warnock was the best of his career to date. Although it didn’t come without some off-field

controversy for the ex-Bluebirds skipper, including a video of him digging out some Derby County players, chiefly Richard Keogh,

going viral. But Morrison wanted to set the record straight on that incident which occurred after the famous ‘Snowgate’ incident.

“But one of the videos that got sent through to Bradley Johnson, he put it in the group chat at Derby and someone has taken it out of

there and sold it to a journalist. It was sent to Richard Keogh, Alex Pearce, they are the boys I’m hammering. It looks terrible but it’s

all banter.”

Warnock called a meeting with Morrison, Lee Peltier and Anthony Pilkington, all of whom were involved, and his skipper recanted the

full story. The manager was satisfied with Morrison’s explanation and was happy to sweep it under the rug, with just a couple of

months left in the season and promotion very much on the line.

Of course, Cardiff did win promotion that season and made a valiant attempt to stay up the following year. It irks Morrison that

Cardiff kept 10 clean sheets, won 10 games and still got relegated. That controversial Chelsea game, and the infamous offside goal by

Cesar Azpilicueta, looms large in Morrison’s memory.

“I’ve got a Premier League Man of the Match trophy at home, it’s f****** lovely, but it says Cardiff-Chelsea,” he said of that game. “It

f****** grinds me, I keep it in a cupboard, I can’t look at it because it p***** me off because I think about that goal.”

Those years after were difficult. After a play-off season under Neil Harris, periods under Mick McCarthy and Morison were

increasingly tough either side of Covid.

Continuing about his exit, he said: “I was angry, disappointed, upset, because I’d given everything to the club for eight seasons. I bled Cardiff, I was all in, everything.

“So to have got the worst injury I’ve ever got, be told I was not going to play football for a year and best-case I’d be at 90 percent when

I came back…. everyone’s time comes to an end. I’m not an idiot. At some point that that Cardiff journey would come to an end.

“If I didn’t do my ACL I believe I would have stayed for another season or two. I believe I would have made it to 10 seasons and that

would have been phenomenal.

“But when I was told in the December that my contract wasn’t going to get renewed and that I would be released, it was a shower of

s*** again. Huds (Mark Hudson) had to tell me. Huds had just taken over as caretaker and it was one of his first jobs. I played with

Huds and I know him well, he’s got to sit in an office and tell me, ‘By the way, Sean, we’re not going to keep you on.’

“So it’s s*** for him. He shouldn’t have had to do that. It should have been the CEO or the chairman. Just tell me like a man, I’m not

an idiot. By the time I’d got released, the writing had been on the wall for months, I’d got over it.”

He added: “If I had got to the end of the season and they wanted to release me then, I would have been able to have actually played my

last game. My last game was Barnsley away, where I did my ACL, that’s probably the one thing that bugs me. I never got a last time to

walk out at Cardiff City Stadium as a player. I loved playing in that stadium.”

Despite Cardiff’s current plight — they moved off the bottom of the table at the weekend after earning their second win of the

campaign — the ex-Bluebirds skipper foresees sunnier skies ahead.

“I had dinner with Rallsy (Joe Ralls) last week, and he told me that when things aren’t going well at Cardiff, it can be difficult because

there are a lot of expectations because the club is so huge. A sleeping titan, in my opinion.

“I have complete faith that they will return to the Premier League; they have the ability to be a major club and a mainstay there at

some point.

“The previous night, while we were talking, Rallsy told me how great the changing room is and that they are still together in spite of

the outcome. The fans are looking for that guts, that fight, and that unity.”

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