Does anyone on here read The Secret Footballer? Do you all know who he is? This week he writes about the new national stadium in Sweden - and our very own Fratton Park gets a specific mention. http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/1724/feel-the-heritage-pride-nostalgia/#pages-top
Correcto-mungo ! There was lots of guessing from a lot of people but it was inadvertently confirmed by one of his former team mates
He's written a whole load of extremely interesting articles - some of them name names as well. He's written about racism (from the point of view of being with team mates rather than an overarching view) depression within football and his own very severe depression footballers egos' and fragility how footballers use twitter to connect with the fans agents and how they can mess up a footballers career how it feels to be relegated how footballers can hide away from the fans when they get so much stick on the pitch (I found that one very interesting) how he will never let his daughter go out with a footballer Most recently he wrote about how finance is changing within the game and how so many footballers have ended up without a club (which explains how we've got Buzascy) Last week he wrote about life under Steve Cotterill (I put a link on here) it was just so obvious who it was about. His book is on my Christmas wish list.
Thanks 3rd, this is a brilliant thread, I've been reading some of the Guardian's extracts. It really is an eye opener into IMHO, a mostly rotten world of rich muckgrubbers. It's not just football, which is the worst of it. Why do we tolerate a society where a small percentage have more than the rest of us put together, many times over?
That reminds me, the one about Cotteril, it mentioned something about there being Champions League winners playing at the time? I honestly can't remember having any Champions League winners play for us at the time (unless Djimi Traore was still here then, though I'm guessing he wasn't)
He was referring to Kanu. Kanu has won a UEFA Champions League medal, a UEFA Cup medal, three FA Cup Winners Medals and two African Player of the Year awards amongst others. He is also one of few players to have won the Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League, UEFA Cup and an Olympic Gold Medal. The olympic medal was 1996.
What's Kanu doing with himself these days ?? I know he's not with a club, so as a free agent, he could sign for any club right now, but what clubs is he holding out for- or do you think he's calling time, at the age of 36, on his career ??
To be honest I think football has called time on him. He is too injured to carry on really. Jamo was telling the story not so long ago, about how Kanu came off the bench, scored a goal and then had to be taken home in a wheelchair. He did well for us in many ways really and should have been treated with a little more respect in the end.
We should regard him as one of our greatest players in the past decade, after what he did for us. Long live the King, Kanu!
