27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colombe du Dja et Lobo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Colombe du Dja et Lobo scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Two goals and a mark of 8.15 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Chukwudi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
69 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colombe du Dja et Lobo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Olivier Mbia will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Colombe du Dja et Lobo escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Chukwudi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Moukoudi and Colombe du Dja et Lobo agree another 1 years.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colombe du Dja et Lobo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
SquadHamidou Hamza falls out with a teammate over standards
Two goals and a mark of 8.95 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colombe du Dja et Lobo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Colombe du Dja et Lobo and Victoria United in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad18 Jan 2044
Hamidou Hamza falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Moukoudi and Colombe du Dja et Lobo agree another 1 years.