This may be well-known to others but this was the first time I had seen this piece by Murphy (on the BBC Sport website today).
A few weeks before I joined Tottenham on transfer deadline day at the end of January 2006, I was bombed out by Charlton manager Alan Curbishley and told to train with the kids - although to this day I cannot understand why that decision was made.
The difference with my situation and the ones I have been talking about, was that the original trigger point was nothing to do with me.
It did not come about because I was angling to join Spurs, but because I found out that Curbishley was trying to manufacture a swap deal involving me going to Newcastle for two of their players.
When I brought it up and asked, in a very civil way, what was going on, he denied it.
Then we lost our next game, against Everton at the start of January, and neither myself nor the team played particularly well.
That was it. Next thing I knew I was in the youth team. If he had just dropped me then there is no way I would have done anything but tried my best in training.
I felt I had been treated unfairly but it was probably thought that I had the potential to be a bad influence on the other lads if I carried on working with them.
The thing was that at Charlton, four or five of my team-mates were really good pals of mine and they were absolutely fuming for me but I just said "get on with it - do your own thing and my problem will resolve itself".
It was actually nice in a way because I got to help the young lads a bit and work with Mark Robson, who is an excellent coach, but I knew I had to leave the club.
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I know who I would believe
Went to the Blackburn League Cup game because a family friend (who is a Charlton supporter) was over from Canada so took him along, couldn't believe it we'd thrown another game after being 2-0 up again
"was that the original trigger point was nothing to do with me."
If Murphy cannot understand why the decision was made how can he be so definitive that the original trigger point was nothing to do with him?
Murphy should have remembered that the club at the time were doing a lot better in the Premier League with the less fashionable names like Mark Kinsella, Claus Jensen and Jonatan Johansson than the superstar names of Danny Murphy etc.
Maybe werent finishing as high but there was a lot more grit and determination in the team all created by Curbs!! - And for me that was with the least attractive Strikeforce that the Premier League has ever seen with: Jason Euell | Shaun Bartlett and Jonatan Johansson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_Newcastle_United_F.C._season#First-team_squad
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3309111/Top-footballers-including-Kevin-Campbell-Andy-Cole-Danny-Murphy-face-100million-losses-mis-selling-investments-scandal.html
Alan Green the commentator is appalling and when combined with either of those two it is excruciating.
However Murphy was under contract and Curbishley could have kept him but didn't, I think Curbs was clearly rather dictatorial but suspect the truth of this story is a bit of this and a bit of that, and anyway not much of a story at all.