Clinton’s City sickener

IF great comedy is all about masking painful truths, then Clinton Morrison is a great comedian.

He sits before us at a press conference in Lansdowne Road on the eve of the big friendly against Italy and, before too long, he has the room rocking and rolling.

But behind the laughs, Morrison is a man at the end of his tether at Birmingham City, where he finds himself down the pecking order behind fellow strikers Emile Heskey, Mikael Forssell and Walter Pandiani.