The January window came and went but one thing stood out for us away from the revolving door of French arrivals.
The Coloccini saga.
The
'will he?', 'Won't he?' stay, the 64,000 dollar question, which had
many twists and turns before ending on an uncertain note.
The uncertainty arose from differing statements attributed to various NUFC individuals.
Some
said he'd see out his contract whilst Colo himself just said that he
was only concentrating on securing our premier league status but was all
this a little smokescreen to con the fans?
Some four weeks
later, we witnessed a strange piece of play from our Argentinian rock in
the Southampton home game, when he received the ball in his own half
under no pressure whatsoever.
What followed was strange and more suspicious as time goes by.
Colo decided that he was under pressure after all and then proceeded to take the ball into our corner flag area.
A
neat piece of skill later, ended with him flat on his back after an
overhead kick cleared the danger before picking himself up and rubbing
his back gingerly.
From where we were sat in the Gallowgate, we witnessed it all unfold in front of our eyes and found it very strange indeed.
Umpteen
attempts to go down for treatment were ignored, even when we were under
pressure and he just carried on, out of position just seemingly
jockeying to find a place to stand or walk to.
He eventually signaled in the centre circle to be subbed before pointing that he'd walk off the pitch from the opposite side.
In
my 35 years plus of going to St James' Park, ive never ever witnessed
anything like it apart from Special K leaving via helicopter but this
was a mini 'goodbye'. We said so on the forum later that night.
Patting of the badge and rubbing a ball boy's head had all the markings of a farewell and a planned one at that.
Some days later, we got news that Colo had broken his back and would be allowed to return home for a week to 'rest'
Videos
showing Colo doing anything but have surfaced in previous days with the
latest showing him remarkably mobile for a man with a very serious back
injury.
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