The Showboating Nani
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
First they tried to stop his gymnastic goal celebrations; now his seal dribbling is on the no-no list: poor Nani, the brilliant Portuguese winger who is trying to bring a few rays of Cape Verde sunshine to a cold, grey and increasingly Prussian Premiership winter.
Sadly for him and for us, his amazing agility and old fashioned, Brazilian-style flair is meeting only gruff disapproval from on high. Arsenal certainly didn’t like it, but then they don’t like anything when things are going against them. But that doesn’t stop them rubbing the noses of their opponents in the dirt whenever they score a goal. Why, Thierry Henry was a past master and his example is still followed. (more…)
