What a shambles! Papers are reporting what anybody with half a brain has known since the start of the season - Ashton isn't ever going to return - but somehow, Zola seems to be outside the loop. How stupid has the manager been made to look as he has publicly pledged support for the porcelain striker, whilst journalists have been falling over themselves, and risking a serious ankle injury in the process, to bring us the news of Ashton's footballing demise.
Of course, Zola may know the truth but be under instruction to play a straight bat to any questions on the topic of Ashton. Heaven forfend that the fans ever be told the truth before it is absolutely necessary! Sod the fans, they are just the mugs who pay good money to follow the club! Apart from Zola pledging his support for the injured striker and also reporting, on two occasions, that he was in the dark on his recovery progress, the last official word from the club on Ashton was Scotty Duxbury telling us how much he was looking forward to seeing him play again. That, of course, was a very convenient reason for not buying somebody to partner Cole up front until the window had closed, leaving us with the only option of signing somebody on a free transfer. How convenient!
I reiterate that I am sad about Ashton having to retire but I have known this was coming for a very long time and have been saying so on this blog. That made me a Spud apparently. No it didn't, it simply meant that I didn't have my head buried in the sand!
There was a time when you thought the club gave a toss about the supporters esp since the arrival of Sky money
ReplyDeleteThey've never cared about the fans or the players all just commodities lining their pockets (just ask Alan Devonshire and the like)