Writer: Total Knobhead
The last time I watched a team give up 7 goals in a single match I was in Brazil watching the seleção give up 7 goals to Germany on 8th of July, 2014, at the Estádio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. (What is it about German teams doing this on other team’s home pitches?) And the response in Brazil was to sack the whole coaching staff right away and to remove most of the players from selection.
Giving up 7 goals on one’s home pitch in an important competition isn’t to be tolerated. I challenge you to provide a discussion of the very few players in our kit yesterday who played like they did give a damn. More than half of the Spurs players on the pitch yesterday should avoid looking in mirrors for a bit.
Here is the sole solace in this horror: The players who think they deserve a big contract with a bigger club like Real Madrid are demonstrating to the Real Madrid’s of the world that this is not a player they want. Who wants to sign a player who showed up only in body, but not in soul, and thus participated in allowing a 7 goals-against debacle? Who wants to give a big money contract to a player who shares large responsibility for a historical horror?
Several players yesterday made it clear that their next contract should be with Colchester, not with Real Madrid or Barcelona. If they keep to that type of poor effort, no one would cheer their presence if they are to come back to visit N17 in the future. What player wants to be thought of as a negative presence? What player wants to be thought of as a massive loser? Yet this is the way several players were yesterday: turned off and tuned out. CE et al. want contracts with RM? They would be lucky to sign with Scunthorpe.
Here’s a challenge: write an essay that describes the positive contributions of the rare player in the white kit on the pitch yesterday who ought to be lauded for effort and quality of contribution. The number of such players would be in a distinct minority. At least six or seven of the players in a white kit disgraced the kit yesterday with a lack of effort. Their concentration wasn’t there. Their heads were in some sort of dream of elsewhere, and I don’t want to see them on the pitch in a real match until they decide that playing in our kit matters to them. I don’t want players without pride to wear our kit. To name them to play would be an insult to the game so long as they don’t care anymore.
I’d be happy to see Alfie Whiteman playing in the next match wearing the captain’s armband. I’d just as soon give up 7 goals with a group of U17s, as with the lot who pretended to play yesterday.
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