How to alienate fans in one fell swoop

By Nathan Jackson
September 18 2008

Kevin Gall has been at the club just over a month and has already started questioning the intelligence of City fans. The striker hasn't performed this season and has criticised the Imps fans for questioning his ability to score goals after he has failed to find the back of the net in 523 minutes of action.

You know what, it takes a lot for a player to properly wind me up by talking to the Lincolnshire Echo, but Kevin Gall has actually managed to do it. Gall joined the Imps in the summer from Carlisle United on a six month loan and it hasn't taken him long to come up with excuses for his lack of goals. In 523 minutes, Gall has failed to find the net and has very looked like scoring and he is convinced it's because he hasn't had many opportunities in front of net.

KEVIN GALL STATS 2008/9
GAMES	7
GOALS	0
MINUTES ON PITCH	523
SHOTS ON TARGET	4
SHOTS OFF TARGET	5
AVERAGE MINUTES BETWEEN SHOTS	58.1

"It's been frustrating, but to be honest I've only had two or three shots. I've not had that many chances. I probably should have scored against Rotherham on the opening day. I also had a shot against Derby which the goalkeeper saved. I had a half-shot after I came on against Bury on Saturday and that's been it," he told the Lincolnshire Echo

At the point, I would like to bring to your attention the table on the right hand side of this page. Despite Kevin's claims about only having two or three shots this season, he has infact had nine, none of which have liked going in. Infact, just four of those have been on target, an average of 130 minutes and 45 seconds between shots on target.

He continued "A lot of people are maybe judging me on that. I think that's a little unfair. But people are going to have an opinion, think that and that's fine. That's football, I'm used to it, I've been in the game long enough to know that. A lot of people don't see the bigger picture. They just see the game, they don't perhaps see the individual. I do a lot of other things apart from just getting on the ball."

Any chance of you pointing out what those other things are Kevin? The only thing I have seen you do one thing whilst not on the ball and that was to call for the ball whilst in an offside position against Dagenham, an incident where you could see all the way along the line. If you're going to question the fan's intelligence regarding the game then you could at least give examples of what you do off the ball, because I do actually occasionally watch you and you don't actually do a lot.

Kevin, how about instead of running to the papers with your little sob story, that you actually start performing on the pitch? You're a striker and you're here to score goals. I'm not going to debate your effort, I'll hold my hands up and admit it's nice to see a player that runs around at full speed for the full 90 minutes, but at the end of the day strikers don't stay at clubs if they don't score goals, just ask Dene Cropper, Ellis Remy and Rory May.

How to alienate fans in one fell swoop

Posted by: theimps.tk (IP Logged)

Date: 18/09/2008 00:23

How to alienate fans in one fell swoop