Lee Bowyer: I feel loved at Birmingham City

Dec 14 2009 by Colin Tattum, Birmingham Mail

LEE Bowyer can feel the love at Blues – and it’s helping him play some of his best football.

It’s West Ham United’s loss, Blues’ gain.

“Everyone wants to feel loved in a way, wanted, and that is how I feel here,” he revealed. “The management, coaching staff and the fans have made me feel like that.

“I wasn’t down at West Ham. It was just I didn’t think I got a fair go once Alan Curbishley went. That is out of my hands.

“When you feel you should be playing in front of other players, you are not in control. I didn’t think I had a fair go, but that is football.

“Football is about opinions and decisions and that is why I am here now at Birmingham and I’m proving people wrong.”

Bowyer had injury problems at the Hammers, and denied it was down to their financial problems why he exited.

“But I could have still played while I was there,” he pointed out. “There are people there who are on more money than I was.

“To a certain extent, I think the money but then they might have wanted to bring the younger players through.

“I don’t know, but at the time I felt I should have been playing and I wasn’t and football is about opinions.”

Bowyer moved to Blues on loan in January then signed a two-year contract in the summer on a free transfer.