Blue Sombrero wrote:
Houlihan on the left spears a 40 metre pass that never went more than three metres above the turf.
When I first engaged social media in 2002, via TC, it was the first time I can ever recall supporters (of any team) judging players by their haircuts. I also read the slurs on Big footy and on Blue view and CSC.... I'd never heard anything like it in public....maybe because I grew up in the era of the beginning of the revolution, where churches were no longer the centre of our universe, the pill was released, and with that free sexuality, freedoms and choice we have as a result today, and so on and so on.....but I grew up with the Bruce Doull hair style, how can anyone forget Tommy Alvin a few years later, Jezzas hair and sideys with a fag in his hand, Swan McKay's hair...everyone's hair...what about Vinnie Catoggios...and I can go on and on from the late 60's right through to the 90's, then something happened....the nerd look was in: glasses, short back n sides, suits, corporate rise...FMD....talk about pigeon holing and mono culture.
WTF. Bogans of the highest order is what I thought of supporters judging players by their @#$%&! haircuts. Who would've thought.
Haircuts, or pretty boy looks have nothing to do with footy, but players like Houla were subjected to such discrimination, after we slumped to the bottom of the ladder for the first time in our history, and it stuck... stuck with those who post on what is the right haircut to look like a professional footballer. I read it regularly. Never did I hear it in public, at parties etc etc.
That's how I see it, and it truly sickens me to read.
Houla was a silky skilled footballer from day one. He was adopted, with an arm of kerna, SOS, Kouta and the legends of the 99 GF rapped around him. He did become that 200 game player for Carlton he was earmarked to become, and was one of the very few stars we had who tried to carry the team after 2002. For that we should forget about the hair and the pretty boy looks and be respectful and grateful. He was a damn good player: one of the few we had in the naughties.