SHAME ON US By Robson Sharuko Our fascination with negativity, when it comes to football, somehow dragged us away from the light where we were supposed to see the splendour of the art that athletes like Kangwa, Chigova, Rio and Sekete displayed that afternoon at Barbourfields and into the darkness where, like vampires, all that mattered to us was the sight of chaos and blood on the floor. Our fascination with negativity, when it comes to football, somehow dragged us away from the light where we were supposed to see the splendour of the art that athletes like Kangwa, Chigova, Rio and Sekete displayed that afternoon at Barbourfields and into the darkness where, like vampires, all that mattered to us was the sight of chaos and blood on the floor. So, the whole week we have been singing, Partson Jaure is an outcast who should be banned from the game and the music has been so loud, amplified of course by the big Zifa voice, with the association’s communications manager, Xolisani Gwesela, blasting the Zimbabwe international defender and, in a statement pregnant with both fury and agenda setting for the inevitable hanging of this footballer, turned himself into the complainant, arresting officer, prosecutor and judge. Because we have become so anti-football, we have drifted far away from the real world of this game, where the stars are the players and the magic is what comes from the field, and found a new home on our isolated reality- show island, where we fool ourselves that what matters are the administrators and what comes out of the boardroom, all we have done this week is persecute Jaure. Because we have become so anti-football, what appeals to us is the negative stuff, even if it was a single 30th minute incident, and we become so allergic to the beauty of everything that Bruce Kangwa displayed that day, in one of the stand- out individual performances of the season, and everything that Cliff Sekete gave us that afternoon, as he turned back the hands of time, to the days when he was at Gunners and everyone spoke highly of him. How Bruce’s beautiful show, which became better and better as the minutes flew past and that lasted the full 90 minutes, can be overshadowed by an incident that happened in the 30th minute, something that we have seen over and over again in this game, a player being fouled and kicking out at his marker, shows us why, in the past few years, we have become an anti-football mob. How Sekete’s artistic show, which was a game- changer for a team that had until then relied on its defensive qualities, could be upstaged by the fury of a teammate who lost his cool after being sent off, and was so reminded by his teammates who knew there was more to their mission than imitating amateur boxers, provides the answer, just in case you were wondering, why we have become such an anti-football mob.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 03:13:42 +0000
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