I remember his war stories, his Werthers original, his grandfather clocks, his hatred of millennials.
It's going to be a tough call whether to support Lausanne or WFC going forward. Horrible when a family splits like this, loyalties pulled in different directions, tugging at heartstrings etc. I will always remember THAT cross (he did make one didn't he?).
Skilly Williams bowls it out to the right half, right half slips it to Kalu. Kalu dribbles, dribbles, dribbles and then puts it into the box, onto a tanner for John Cother to slot home. The Cassio Road crowd toss their boaters into the air and declare 'Bully for Sam Kalu!'
With apologies to Lewis Carroll (Andy’s great granddad): Oh frabjous day Kalu’s gon’ away He chortled in his joy.
They were the days. Genuine legend. To come back after being displaced by John Barnes for 5 seasons in a row showed true loyalty.
With all the jokes and doubts about his actual age, I feel we’ve wasted an opportunity here in not sending him to fellow Swiss club Young Boys!
The same apologists on twitter and here who defend our godawful summer incomings with the correct assertion that we are skint, also defended the windows when we spent tens of millions on this type of shyte, which we absolutely did not need at the time and have hitherto disposed of.
There are many fans who are still bending towards whatever the ownership do, as the right call, no matter what. They only change their minds once the passing of time clearly proves it wasn't the correct decision, but then they tend to go a little quiet in those circumstances. Yet, next time the club do something, the default opinion is always of full backing instead of questioning. I think these fans are enablers, and unfortunately we have many of them. If the penny finally drops for these people, it would sound like the fruit machine jackpot being won at Bellagio's.
I wasn't at the Parlaci, but I followed the live text. It was an utterly insulting farce. Barefaced nonsense spouted in the face of what we know to be true (eg. Mogi). 24 hours later, there were still people on Twitter talking about how they were encouraged by the total BS that had been spouted. Then they mock people for being 'negative.' It's hilarious that these people effectively defended terrible decisions made 1,2,3,4,5 years ago, but then when those decisions are undone, having proven empirically as failures, they laud the club for taking action.
My recent favourite was Gaspar being paid off 1 year into a 2 year contract being “good decisive business by the club management.”
As I often say, that the people responsible for so many awful, wasteful and often unnecessary transfers like this one remain in lucrative club employment is simply a scandal. I fear we can never fully move on without severing links, but we seem to have no inclination to do so. I waste no time worrying about other people’s opinions elsewhere. They are free to see the perceived good in all the bad that most of us sensible people see. Let them have their views, let us freely articulate ours, as many sensible people on here do. Only 4 days til we get football back. Yayy. I hate international breaks, especially this first one just as the season has got going.
I remember that certain accounts on Twitter lauded the Gaspar signing as he was bringing "leadership".
I think he was a good egg, he was diligent wherever he played, but it doesn't change the fact that he was completely and utterly not what we needed in the position he was brought in for
So what if other people do have the opposite point of view? Who are any of us to feel we must always be right and look down at others? I dislike Pozzo and his hangers-on, I think they’ve run us into the ground, I think we’ve wasted so much money on needless or useless signings and we are all suffering for it this season...but I’m not losing sleep over the fact that we still have some supporters who take the opposite view. So what? They still support the club.
I agree Malt, however I was told many years ago to only concern yourself with things that you can control, none of us have any influence over who’s bought who’s sold at our club and how it’s run, the main thing is we have a club currently functioning in one of the best leagues in the world, no one liked losing our P.L. Status but it’s a darn sight better than losing our league two status and playing in the conference! We mustn’t forget the journey we are on, or should I say rollercoaster!
Everything seems factionalised. More and more we read ‘some people will still boo’ or ‘some people will still cheer’. Like, so what? I really don’t give a toss if some people still like Gino..I don’t and that’s my opinion and the only thing that matters to me, so why should I waste time trashing people who have more loyalty to him than I do? On the rare occasions we win a match, why should I want to hear ‘oh some people will be sad tonight’? When we lose, why should I care that it’s a bad day for the so-called bedwetters? I don’t. It’s a sad day for me. I’m not bothered about anybody else. Our battles are with the other 23 clubs, not with ourselves. If we dislike Pozzo, he’s the bad guy, not the fans who think he isn’t. Sometimes it feels as if we are turning in on ourselves too much of late, and I cannot see the point.
Weirdly I actually once bumped into Kalu at the Stonehenge museum. I approached him and made a remark about how old Stonehenge is. He scoffed and said it's just 'another newbuild'. Make of that what you will.
