Wes Morgan no Franz Beckenbauer but he is a warrior, says Frank Clark
Wednesday 6 April 2016 15:21, UK
Wes Morgan is no Franz Beckenbauer, according to former Nottingham Forest chairman Frank Clark, but he says there may be a few people at the club who regret selling him to Leicester.
Clark presided over the club when Forest sold Morgan to their local Championship rivals for a fee believed to be in the region of £1m in 2012.
Morgan, 32, is now on the cusp of captaining the Foxes to the Premier League title and Clark insists he fully deserves the glory.
Speaking to Sky Sports News HQ, the 1979 European Cup winner with Forest said: "What I admired about Wes was his attitude. He was a bit of a throwback - a warrior.
"He's no Beckenbauer, and he never thought he was going to be Beckenbauer, but him and Robert Huth are what I would call 'no nonsense defenders' and they're as good as any pairing in the league at the moment.
"There will be a few people in and around Nottingham Forest, or maybe a few who aren't there anymore, who will be thinking 'perhaps I was wrong about him'."
Clark was part of the famous Forest side under Brian Clough that won the 1978 league and cup double and the 1979 European Cup final against Malmo FF.
Of comparisons with Leicester's unlikely title tilt, he said it is a "completely different era and that comparisons are a bit invidious" but "what they're doing is amazing".
Clark said: "It's a real fairytale. They've got the lads at the right time, like Brian and Peter Taylor did with us, and they're a team in the real sense of the word. They seem to be together on and off the pitch."
