Letter to Lyon

By: Inara | January 23rd, 2008

Dear Lyon,

I know I’ve ignored you the past couple of days, but I just had to get away from you.

Now that I’ve had sufficient time to think about things, I have a few things to say.

First of all, I don’t blame you for losing to Lens. You had just lost Anderson, and we all know that your defense, as ragtag as it is, isn’t so bad as to make it easy pickings for a team like Lens, who have minimal firepower. No, I know you were morally down and depressed. It’s hard to play with drive and energy when you feel that every time you get back on your feet from one disaster, another one immediately strikes from behind. But I still have faith that we’ll win the French title, and I haven’t written off progress in the Champions League.

I’m even okay with the arrivals of Cesar Delgado and Marc Crosas. Especially Crosas, who while young, looked pretty decent out there. In fact, he seemed to be doing the best out of your three midfielders. What I don’t get is your reticence in getting a defender. Actually, it makes no sense. You should have been after one even before Anderson got injured. But even after he got injured, you waited until the Lens game.

And all you could come up with was Boumsong? I mean, I know options are limited, but…BOUMSONG? Come on, what happened to Sébastien Pocognoli, who isn’t cuptied and at least more reassuring? I mean, are you trying to make yourself look like an idiot?

That’s my problem with you. I feel like you’re living two different lives. During the day, you’re a gentleman, decent, hardworking, ambitious – someone I’d be proud to take home to my parents. But at night, you start smoking who knows what, hang out with a bunch of low lives, and make it clear that you don’t mind sleeping around with cheap hookers in sleazy, downtrodden motel rooms.

Don’t get alarmed – this isn’t a breakup letter. One doesn’t throw away several years of love and commitment over short period of restlessness. I understand that you have wild oats to sow, have to rebel against the big clubs by doing things your way, and you don’t want to settle down into getting 2.5 trophies every year.

But I have expectations too. And if you don’t start acting on the “give” part of our give and take relationship, then I’ll have to take an even longer break from you and seriously evaluate where our relationship is headed in the next few years. It’s time to grow up, Lyon. It’s time to realize that you are in fact a big club. You have money. You have power. You have to learn to use it properly.

Don’t break my heart.

Love Inara

PS: Please don’t mess up your home game with Lorient today. They already beat us once this year, and they aren’t such a great team to deserve to manage it twice.

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