Your Letters

Oct 31, 2004

For the love of clubs<br>Sir - Forget about the kinds of love that you know of . In soccer, loving a team is liking everything about it and most important of all hating all that stands in its way.

For the love of clubs
Sir - Forget about the kinds of love that you know of . In soccer, loving a team is liking everything about it and most important of all hating all that stands in its way.

Call it being a fan or fanatic. Fans can change anything but not their clubs. It is supposed to be taboo for one to change clubs, unless of course he or she is one of the now very common ‘good weather fans’.

Week in week out fans pray for there teams to win and rival teams to lose.

This breed of love has no allowances for appreciating any achievement a rival club makes.

It starts from the managers, players and then to the fans. It is reflected in the words they exchange. Of course there are those that keep it diplomatic but others need people like the England manger Sven Ericksson to remind them that “talking is silver and silence is gold.”

If only for the love of the game by which their clubs have made names, fans can be more objective, give credit where it is due, soccer would be an even better game.

Let them do it just for the love of soccer, after all they are all fans of the beautiful game.
Nabitaka Vennie
KAMPALA

I will miss Waibale
Sir - It is with shock that I read of Waibale Snr’s death.

I first met Snr when he had just been appointed to replace Wafula Oguttu as Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly Topic at Sapoba House in Katwe. I had been reading his “Does it make sense?” column and wanted to meet the brilliant man who wrote it.

I found him a warm man who showed his love and insight of sport in his writing. Extend my sincere condolences to the journalism fraternity.
Moses Twesigye-omwe
DUBLIN

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