JUST MOR OF THE SAME

STEVE MORISON believes only the tough can survive at Millwall. And to prove it he is cheerleader of a group of team-mates that regularly eat at an aptlynamed TONY STENSON Turkish restaurant call ‘Havet’. The striker, 33, says it as it is and has even rowed with his own fans, whose motto is ‘no one likes us, we don’t care’.

But they love him at the New Den because of his never-say-die attitude and the 80 goals that have made him joint fifth in the club’s all-time list of scorers.

Millwall boss Neil Harris calls him ‘leader’ and it sits well on the ex-Wales international’s shoulders as they go into today’s FA Cup clash with Watford.

He said: “He wants me to lead them to glory. That’s the plan, to do my bit. It will be tough but if we perform like we did against Bournemouth, who knows?

“My relationship with the fans? I just go out there and do what you do. And if they don’t like it? I do it my way and if someone wants to have a pop at me then they have to be willing to take a

pop back. If they don’t like it then don’t have a go at me.

“I wear my heart on my sleeve and I think they accept that but I don’t overstep the mark.

“They can see that and they can also see I only want to win and I’ll win by any means possible.

“It’s what makes this club special, everything about it from the bottom to the top. The staff we see every day, the players, the managers. You look how the fans got after the people who were trying to take our ground off us.

“It’s just everything about the place. You can go away and then come back and it’s just as if you’ve never been away. There aren’t many places like that. This club makes or breaks people.

“Some people come here with very good reputations and can’t do it because they’re weak mentally. They have the ability and you don’t lose that but you can lose your inner strength and mentality with someone having a go at you.

“Some just can’t handle that.”