Leon Knight has accused Sheffield Wednesday manager Chris Turner of making his life a misery.

Albion's top scorer became so disillusioned during a loan spell last season with Saturday's Withdean visitors that he even considered packing the game in.

Knight was borrowed from Chelsea by former Wednesday boss Terry Yorath for the whole of last season.

The move turned into a nightmare for the diminutive marksman once Yorath was axed and replaced by Turner in November.

"When he came in my whole world collapsed really," Knight said.

"I took it back home with me to my family and I was in real distress. All I want to do is play football and he stopped me from doing that."

Knight netted twice in as many games shortly after Turner took charge.

He grabbed a last minute equaliser as a substitute at Gillingham, then scored in a home defeat by Portsmouth.

Two matches later he made what proved to be the last of his 14 starts for Wednesday, ironically in the 1-1 home draw against Albion in December.

"He (Turner) said I didn't fit into his style of play," Knight explained.

"He wanted a team of big boys who basically lump it and win the flicks on, just battle and don't really get the ball down on the floor.

"I had to take a sidestep for about seven months which was the most terrible time of my whole career. I was even thinking of packing the game in.

"He was just the most disrespectful man I have ever come across. I was one of the better trainers there, but he pulled me up and said I wasn't putting it in.

"He gave me two weeks and I put everything into it and he still fobbed me off.

"That's what I didn't like. You were not getting played on merit there. No matter what he wasn't going to play you."

Knight, already on target twice against another of his former clubs QPR at Withdean this season, is determined to make Turner pay for the way he was treated.

"When people do something to me like that it spurs you on even more.

"I always said I will play against him one day and I will be bang on my game.

"I just want to show him on Saturday that I can play, because he made me think that I can't play."

Albion and Wednesday were both relegated from the First Division last season. The Seagulls have been finding it difficult to adjust back to a different style of football, but Knight believes they will soon strike top form.

"It's a lot more of a battle in the Second Division," he said. "In the First Division you get a bit more time.

"We haven't really clicked as a team all season yet. We've been grinding out results, which is a good sign, and we can only get better.

"When we start really playing and getting the ball down, varying our game, going long then short, we will murder teams in this League.

"We haven't even found our feet yet. We've come down and every one wants to beat us.

"We are not far off the top and there are loads of games to go, so this is not the time to start panicking."