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Who is the Secret Footballer...?

Armor

I've seen it suggested that a few lies were thrown in so it couldn't be figured out. Somebody was claiming that the playing abroad experience was similar to Danny Higginbotham's spell in Holland - i haven't read any of that so i can't comment on it but i think they said Kitson and Higginbotham were friends so he just used his experiences to add more to the story.

Anyway its definitely him. He's even on the record as saying he might go into writing after his career is over and so much of it matches up. These two videos prove it for me.

Tam

TSF did an interview with Victoria Derbyshire on Radio Five Live this weekend. I've not listened to the full show yet just a three minute clip but it does sound a lot like Kitson.

And from what I read it sounds like he has been caught out claiming certain experiences or stories of others as his own, as many suspected. I think everyone suspected that was the case anyway, either to throw people off the scent or to liven it up a bit.

invisibleman18

Anyone still reading this? He now has a secret pundit (also supposed to be a current player), physio, journalist, non-league player and even wag.

His latest piece is about Wenger in which he mentioned being part of the opposition in a game where one of our players suffered a horrific injury. Pretty much confirms Kitson as he was on the bench for Stoke that day.

http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/13228/in-arsene-we-must-trust/

Pepe LeFrits

http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/12386/we-like-it-hot-hot-hot/

Dear god, that is absolutely awful. It seems the WAG author is every bit as vapid and lacking in self awareness as you'd imagine one to be. The article reads like it's been written by a 12 year old girl.

Pepe LeFrits

Actually, that's probably doing a disservice to 12 year old girls.

invisibleman18

True it's about as you expect. I'm still enjoying the Secret Footballer's columns though and the Secret Non League also gives a pretty interesting insight into what it's like way down at the bottom.

invisibleman18

Latest piece further confirms Kitson.

But there are genuine rivalries between managers, too. I can remember one of my old managers becoming almost obsessed with beating Arsenal and, in particular, Arsene Wenger. Whenever we played against Arsenal, it seemed that Wenger couldn’t even wait to leave the stadium before denouncing everything that our club stood for.

It is true that each club was the antithesis of the other, not least in the way that their managers felt the game should be played. It could have been that which fuelled what became a personal agenda for each man, an agenda that often spilled on to the pitch and into the stands. And still does …

That can only be Pulis.

Qwiss

Whoever the secret footballer is, he's a racist

Meatwad

well he maybe a racist, but he's apparently expressing what white players, management, ownership and fans believe anyway. i guess it's ok to behave in a racist manner as long as you don't pull the curtain back and put it down on paper. i'm glad he wrote that.

Klaus

Juan Mata controls games...?

Qwiss

Meatwad wrote:
well he maybe a racist, but he's apparently expressing what white players, management, ownership and fans believe anyway. i guess it's ok to behave in a racist manner as long as you don't pull the curtain back and put it down on paper. i'm glad he wrote that.

He certainly doesn't speak for the fans and I don't think he really speaks for managers or players in general either. He may speak for some of the managers he's worked with but those guys aren't anywhere near the top of the game. The most high profile of them being Tony Pulis and I don't think anyone would be surprised if Pulis agrees with him.

I think he's just one of a bunch of racist and is saying everyone agrees. Thats what racists do.

Qwiss

Klaus wrote:
Juan Mata controls games...?

Looking at that above apparently every midfielder we had when he wrote the article does too, because they're white. Wenger chooses this because he is also a racist apparently. We must have been so shit with Gilberto and Vieira in midfield, no control at all.

goon

It's a good thing Chelsea had Lampard to control games while Essien and Makalele ran around like headless chickens. God knows how they won anything.

Ray

Isn't Dave Kitson the secret footballer?

Burnwinter

Ha. I was waiting for him to say Ramsey controls the tempo at Arsenal.

I suppose he's now the Racist Footballer—the Secret bit's just a footnote. Cool beans.

Black footballers do contend with racist caricatures as far as I've observed, the whole "beast", "monster" thing plus being called "stupid" or "brainless" for things that might lead to a white player being called "errant" or "lacking discipline" …

Biggus

😆 We got to get ourselves some of them white fella midfielders we haven't controlled the tempo of a game since Bergkamp and err Vieira.

jones

I was genuinely laughing at some of the names he threw out there, not only the quality of the players but the roles he attributes to them. But the best one has to be Spurs are on the cusp of success since they're playing Ryan Mason 😆

jones

Qwiss! wrote:
I think he's just one of a bunch of racist and is saying everyone agrees. Thats what racists do.

Exactly. Was the case just the other day with the leader of the new far right party in Germany who said "people like Jerome Boateng for the national team but they wouldn't want to live next to him", when he got in hot water over it he also said he just repeated what the majority thinks.

Jed

Clarence Seedorf was one of the most intelligent footballers to have played the sport. The secret footballer is a moron.

Mirth

goon wrote:
It's a good thing Chelsea had Lampard to control games while Essien and Makalele ran around like headless chickens. God knows how they won anything.

😆

I guess Payet's stuffed, someone should have told him he's not white enough to be one of the best playmakers in England

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