Saluté
There’s only one place to start today and it is tomorrow’s cracker. The Pharoahs are in town. Should they be called Pharoahs? Or is Pharoah reserved for the big guns alone? The Mo Salahs, Mohammed Aboutrikas and the Mohammed Elnenys. Dunno. Ill ask around. Does it matter? They’re in town and that’s the news.
We line up against them tomorrow (5pm- i saw somewhere) hoping to get our CAF Campaign underway. Someone did say this was a good time to play them because they were “out of form”. Well, I don’t know about that, because they’ve had 2 defeats in their last 10 games. Those defeats were to Al Masry ( Remember them?) Al Ahly. The other 8 games, they triumphed including Black Bulls Maputo who they equally beat 2-0.
All that little history is fine but it shouldn’t derail our focus on what ought to be our first points on the board. Young team, young manager, with the worst sporting director in the history of sporting directors, playing at a home ground away from home, we can line up excuse after excuse or we can just roll up our sleeves/socks, cross the white line and go do battle man to man.
A popular saying in the world today is that “Elections have consequences” and while that does indeed spell true for us, appointments have consequences too. Perhaps this is the season Papillo and his pathetically inept team learns that quality recruitment is necessary in lining up your goals for the season. What are our goals for the season though? Anyone know?
From an administrative point of view, theres alot we can learn from the North Africans and how they run their football. For instance, a club with such history as ours in the Continent will not let that administrator last one day if they run their club as Enyimba is currently being run. Imagine telling Zamalek fans that they wont watch their team play in their home stadium in the Continent.
Anyway, more on our problems in the days ahead but tomorrow we can get out there and put our best foot forward. Cos I know that with the quality inert in this team, we can get the 3 points against this opponent. I believe that 100%.
Back tomorrow.
‘EnyimbaEnyi
