| Dear Samba Diakite. 16:47 - Oct 16 with 966 views | Hooping_Mad |
Dear Samba,
Its been a long 14 years and I've loved every minute, even the ones where you didn't play or appear as a sub or even offer to facilitate witchcraft services where needed. I mean yes you retired 6 years ago but it never really sank in because there was just nobody like you. Ever.
Yes we've had mentalists through our doors, but none of them were like you. Gliding around the place beaming all whilst the local undertaker begged you to just slow down a bit. Bodies piled up usually alongside a fairly hefty quantity of red cards. It didn't matter that you'd vanish for 3 weeks out of every 4 'serving your suspension' it just made me want you more and more. 33 minutes was all it took, someone said it was a derby game so you did your thing.
The club, the rest of the squad, the club journalists, the entire footballing press, 99% of the fan base and the entire nation of Mali has a suspicion that you may have had a screw or two loose but they just didn't understand you like I did, you operated purely on instinct. I mean yes you had the instincts of a petulant serial killer with his nuts clamped in a vice but it was still instinct none the less and I loved you for it.
Now though something has changed, there's someone new, someone fresh and delightfully violent. He screams at Linesmen and they listen because they're proper scared, he can wipe out a man 10 ft away from the ball when making a simple clearance to then inform the ref there was absolutely no other option avalable. He can make grown men cry, some cry tears of pain and terror and regret but mine are pleasure, sheer, unadulterated pleasure like the ones you shed when you see your first born. Or in your case probably your first kill.
Growing apart is difficult to take, a bit like completing 90 minutes without a booking. However if you need a pick me up can I point you in the direction of one Boy Kemper V Derby FC, there were some other lads there but it was mostly him, You'll enjoy the screaming, the violence, the head injuries. Men curling into the foetal position will really take you back honestly give him 45 minutes if he doesn't do it for you then world is upside down.
We'll always have Arsenal.
HM.
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| Dear Samba Diakite. on 17:00 - Oct 16 with 899 views | Dorse |
If we can have one about Esquerdinha, we can certainly have one about Diakite.
Bravo, Sir. Bravo. |  |
| 'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!' |
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| Dear Samba Diakite. on 17:02 - Oct 16 with 885 views | TwoHalves |
The first cut is the deepest, eh. | | | |
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