Marlon King has said that moving to Birmingham City was something he had to do.
King who will be playing for a different manager to the one that signed him after Alex McLeish resigned via email yesterday, told the Birmingham Mail: “This is an opportunity I had to take. Anybody else in my shoes would have done the same. I couldn’t turn it down on other people’s opinions.
“If I let that get to me I might as well just pack in football. I have still got a life to live.”
Speaking about the mixed response from Birmingham City supporters that he has so far received, King said: “I can understand how some people feel, but it’s easy to be judgmental when you don’t know someone personally.
“I do it myself. I pick up the paper and read stuff and think a person is a certain way and then you meet them and find they’re totally different.
“For me, I am just going to go out there and do my job and work hard, keep my head down and try and start turning my life around and doing what’s not just right for me and my family, but my employers as well.
“It (the reaction) was probably even worse when I signed at Coventry. An opportunity was given to me to resurrect my career and life and I had to take it then as well, regardless of people’s opinions.
“Some fans were happy, some fans weren’t happy. But I left there knowing that I gave 110 per cent.
“I can’t go round trying to change what people think of me."