Im back!
WHILE the maxim which musicians are contractually obliged to live by is the Bob Dylan-endorsed don’t look back, the one footballers are meant to have sworn to obey is don’t go back.
But footballers, like musicians, are emotive beings and are often easily drawn to places where they once could rely on adoration.
It’s a human response to want to go back, to want to return to when everything came easier and the limbs were younger. Both Thierry Henry and Paul Scholes are the latest to follow their hearts rather than listen to the nagging fears in their heads. Physically, they don’t claim to be anything other than diminished forces but then class, as Henry proved last night within ten minutes of opening his second chapter at Arsenal, is permanent. Neither clearly believe that they are in danger of wrecking their legacies – and Henry, whose remarkable winner against Leeds United was his 227th goal for the club, could well be right.
one more time.one last time
It’s a dilemma many face. Football loves a returning-hero story and the fans relish the idea – until it goes wrong. The game is littered with those who succumbed to the lure of going home. They are often horrified to discover that while home might not have changed their bodies have. Just ask Motherwell fans who looked on aghast as Brian McClair threatened to demolish his reputation in 13 goal-less games following his return to the club where he started his career. The trouble was he had suddenly turned into a 34 year-old player whose best years were behind him.
Fortunately, second stints are sometimes so underwhelming that few are able to recall them.
Written by Allan
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