Jonathan Greening insists no-one has a bigger incentive to turn around West Brom’s plight as his son keeps being told daddy is "a loser".
With the Baggies still stuck at the foot of the Premier League, Troy Greening, four, is being teased in the playground about his father. Troy has even swapped eight football cards of his midfielder dad for other more prestigious players like England aces Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard.
Skipper Greening, 30, admitted: "It is tough when you are bottom of the league most of the year and there is a lot of negativity about. I’ve got my little boy coming home from school and his friends are claiming I am a loser.
"I remember six weeks ago my little boy came home and said: ‘Dad, why do all my friends call you a loser’? "I just started laughing and said: ‘Do you think I’m a loser’ and he said: ‘I don’t think you are a loser’ so that was a good answer.
"My lad has never got upset about what people say though - he is just a weirdo like his mum! "He had all the little football cards at school and was swapping them - I think he had eight of me at one stage.
"I asked him where they had all gone recently and he said he had swapped them for better players - Gerrard, Lampard. There are none left of me."
Despite buying Troy a West Brom shirt with Greening’s number on it, the Albion captain admits it is a struggle to get his son backing the Baggies.
At least his dad is playing top flight football (doesn't matter if he's kicking ass on the top 10).