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.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Labasa are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Labasa have gone and got theirs early.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Christopher Wasasala signs something — a contract at Labasa or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
$2.0K on the table at Nadroga. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Nobody at Labasa will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Labasa that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
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.
Simione Ragoneturaga and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Christopher Wasasala signs something — a contract at Labasa or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.