NOT RIGHT IN THE HEAD

Last updated : 09 December 2003 By editor

Jermain Defoe is almost certain to leave West Ham in the January transfer window after the club's chairman Terence Brown admitted the England Under-21 international striker is determined to turn his back on Upton Park.

"Look at Jermain, I always felt that boy would knuckle down," said Brown. "I thought if you stuck him on Hackney Marshes he'd want to play football, but everyone knows that boy's head's not right. You cannot make people do what they don't want to do. We've all watched West Ham long enough to be used to this want-to-get-away syndrome. “