Biography
Left sided midfielder Owen Morrison was signed on loan by City manager Jan Molby in August 2002 to cover for an injury to Stuart Elliott. After a couple of appearances it was evident that Morrison was not at peak fitness and he was sent back to his parent club after a week.
John Owen Morrison was born in Derry and began his career as a teenager with his local League of Ireland side Derry City, where he made a handful of fisrt team appearances. In August 1998 the former Northern Ireland international and newly installed Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Wilson snapped up Morrison. He made his Premier League debut on Boxing Day 1998 against Leicester City, but it was nearly two years before he made a second senior appearance when the freshly relegated Owls started Owen in a September 2000 Championship game against Tranmere Rovers. He retained his first team starting berth for five months as Wednesday struggled at the foot of the table under Paul Jewell’s management. Morrison scored three goals in four matches in September and October 2000, but all three goals came in defeats against Preston, West Bromwich Albion and Portsmouth. By the end of the calendar year Owen had scored eight times in all competitions but he drifted out of the first XI and onto the bench during the new year. He was used mainly as substitute during 2001/02 and when he left the Owls in February 2003 he had made 69 first team appearances in all competitions, 29 as a substitute, and scored eleven goals.
Morrison made the controversial cross-city switch to Sheffield United in February 2003 and made eight league appearances for the Blades before refusing a contract extension in the summer and joining Stockport County. Owen made 28 appearances for the Hatters, 16 from the bench, and scored twice before he joined Bradford City in December 2004. He was regular starter for the Bantams for half a season before again drifting out of the first team picture in his second season, at the end of which he was released from his contract after breaches of discipline. In July 2006 he headed to Scotland and signed for Dunfermline Athletic but after two more seasons of appearances mostly from the bench he left the Pars and returned to Ireland. Between 2008 and 2012 he played for three Irish League sides and also had a spell in America playing for New York FC. He ended his playing days back at Derry City in 2012, although in 2014 he made a short lived comeback at Ulster Senior League side Letterkenny Rovers. In 2016 he was back in Derry and receiving a suspended sentence for driving a stolen car without a license while stashing exotic powder down his sock.
Morrison won seven Northern Ireland under-21 caps between 2001 and 2003 but was unable to make the breakthrough to the senior team.
Details
Nationality: Northern Ireland
Date/Place of Birth: 8 December 1981, Derry
Hull City First Game: 24 August 2002, Bury H (League Division 3), 20 years, 259 days old
Hull City Final Game: 31 August 2002, Leyton Orient H (League Division 3), 20 years, 266 days old
Clubs
Derry City (1987-1988), Sheffield Wednesday (1998-2003), Hull City (2002, loan), Sheffield United (2003), Stockport County (2003-2004), Bradford City (2004-2006), Dunfermline Athletic (2006-2008), Derry City (2008), Sligo Rovers (2009), Portadown (2010), New York FC (2011), Derry City (2011-2012), Letterkenny Rovers (2014-2015)
Hull City Record
Career: 2 apps, 0 goals
Owen Morrison| Season | LGE App | LGE Gls | FAC App | FAC Gls | FLC App | FLC Gls | EUR App | EUR Gls | OTH App | OTH Gls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002/03 | 1 (1) | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |