So Harold Kewell finally signed on the dotted line up for Galatasaray.
“They’re a great club,” a self-congratulatory Kewell told Sky Sports
“There are a lot of nice people over here, it’s a great country and I’m looking forward to it.
“There were a few other clubs involved, other English clubs, but Galatasaray showed a lot of faith in me and were very strong from the start and that’s why I signed for them.
“It’s a new chapter for me, I’m looking forward to it. They’ve got a great young squad, I’m looking forward to meeting with the boys and training with them.”
Yesterday, I basically argued that the choice of professional footballers as to where to play was theirs alone and not subject to ties of loyalty to past clubs or ratification by their fans.
However, I did not grant them licence to wash away their past history as if it never happened nor to lie brazenly about it.
When Kewell was asked about the ill-feeling his move was generating he was breathtaking in his insouciance as he prattled,
“It was a tragic thing what happened but we can’t live in the past”
Thank God, he makes his living with his feet and not his brains as this tactless statement clearly shows that irony is a concept well beyond his grasp. No, we can’t ‘live in the past’ Harold - but the fact that Chris and Kevin aren’t with us today is what concerns us - but we can’t brush aside the deaths of our fellow fans just like that - as a mere inconvenience blocking our path to fifty grand a week.
‘We’ve got to look to the future and that’s what I’m concentrating on,” beamed our Harold, adjusting his blinkers so that he could only see straight ahead.
“I gave a good nine years to Leeds and left on good terms (WTF! - Ed.), there shouldn’t be any bad feeling,” he concluded to the sound of jaws dropping.
‘Arry spent a good part of the highly-paid end of his Leeds sojourn getting the best medical treatment money could buy at the expense of Leeds United. ‘Arry then left Elland Road amidst outrage at the manner of his departure not only from the Leeds United board and fans but also by independent media observers too.
He may have left on good terms with his fellow players but the club and fans wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire. Clearly Harold is living in an alternative reality on Planet Mandic.
Perhaps more irritating than his ‘live in the past’ faux pas, his ego-centric view of the future, and even his re-writing of the past is his instruction to Leeds fans that “there shouldn’t be any bad feeling.”
The tone of these comments over the move have ensured that there will be nothing but ill-feeling towards him. I never thought I would ever see again as much vitriol aimed at a Leeds player as was displayed toward Alan Smith when he moved to Man Utd - but I was wrong.
The internet is a fantastic medium for allowing the true fan to have his say without the filtering, censoring or editing that occurs in the usual media and Kewell is getting deserved, full broadsides everywhere that there are Leeds fans.
Kewell stands condemned by his own words and this country is well rid of him.
I wish him everything my fellow Leeds fans are wishing him… I really do.
Welcome to Hell Harry, may it endure and endure for you.
