Who The Hell Is Camara? We Have A New Hero!

By Scott Cooper
January 24 2005

HENRI Camara, who the hell is he? Less than six months ago our prize asset and new found hero did the dirty on us. He went off to Celtic leaving Wolves in his wake, yet who cares, we now have a new hero.

HENRI Camara, who the hell is he? Less than six months ago our prize asset and new found hero did the dirty on us. He went off to Celtic leaving Wolves in his wake, yet who cares, we now have a new hero.

It doesn't seem that long ago since we all sat at Molineux on a warm afternoon wearing Senegal flags in honour of our newly found hero. The final game of our only ever Premiership season was dubbed as "Henri Day" by the media. Why? Because we had found a little gem, a little lad from Senegal called Henri Camara. The pint-sized striker couldn't hit a barn door from five yards for the majority of the season, yet we bought flag after flag in support of him.

Camara was even voted Player of the Season by the Wolves fans, although how he won that vote ahead of Alex Rae will always mystify the majority of Wolves fans.

"I like Wolverhampton, the fans are great and I want to say" said Camara days after the 2-0 defeat to Spurs (Henri Day), yet a couple of months later and the player later dubbed as "The Rat" was making hid debut in Scotland for Rangers.

Wolves fans were furious. He was an unknown player and Wolves had given him his chance in English football, yet he threw it back in the clubs faces. To this day Camara insists he will never return to Wolves. "Don't even mention them to me" he recently said in a newspaper article, yet his departure to Glasgow was one almighty big blessing in disguise.

Celtic were suckers. Wolves agreed a loan fee of £1.5M - a British loan record fee - and allowed Camara to join Celtic for the 2004/05 season.

At the time of his departure the £1.5M seemed like nothing, but six months later and Wolves have a new hero.

He goes by the name of Seol Ki-Hyeon and featured in the 2002 World Cup Semi Final for Korea. "He has an eye for goal" said Dave Jones when he signed him from Anderlecht for £1.5M in October. Ironically it was the very same £1.5M Celtic handed Wolves for taking the Rat off our hands.

Seol took a while to settle, but boy has he settled now. The man from Korea has already made himself a hero by giving 100%, dazzling defenders with his skill and by scoring some stunning goal. Most recently, a 92nd minute 30-yard effort against Millwall on Saturday.

Seol is worth 5 Herni Camara's. He creates, he scores, he dazzles defenders and more importantly, he wants to play for the old gold and black.

Camara has failed to impress in Scotland and will be returning to Wolverhampton for Wolves to dispose of as they wish at the end of the season.

Sadly it means that Camara is still a Wolves player, but he won't like that one little bit. Henri won't want to play for Wolves next season, but let's be honest, he wouldn't be chosen ahead of Seol anyway.

The summer of 2004 was one in which Wolves temporarily lost a Judas, found a Hero and won a war with a muppet from Senegal.

Well done Jez Moxey. There is only one SEOL!