Prior Deludes Himself About Stick Received
Former Cardiff City defender Spencer Prior loves taking a swipe at his former employers, or rather the fans and has been whining in the press again today.
This time he claims he was a target for the Ninian Park boo boys because he is English.
Prior is a perfect inclusion for this website as he is completely self deluded about why he was booed. He was once infamously heckled and jeered as he prepared to enter the pitch as a substitute and it is probably that reason why he has developed such venom towards the Bluebirds, using his nationality is just a convenient excuse.
The reason Prior was booed and target for terrace abuse was not because he was English, but because he came to the club with a huge reputation, commanded an even bigger salary and gave back very little in return.
A player who spent most of his career in the Premiership before joining Cardiff should have eaten third division strikers for breakfast, but what City fans got was an uncertain, error prone player who simply did not justify his estimated weekly wage of between £6-£8,000.
The astute observation of one five year old supporter summed up Prior in a nutshell when he asked: “is he supposed to fall over all the time?”
For the record, there have been plenty of English players who have been adored by the City faithful in recent years: Michael Chopra, Cameron Jerome, Peter Thorne, Neil Ardley, Jobi McAnuff, Gary O’Neill, Gareth Ainsworth, Julian Gray, Leo Fortune-West, Paul Brayson, Jeff Eckhardt, Gareth Stoker, Steve White, Phil Stant and Tony Philliskirk all effortlessly spring to mind.
Where they differ to Prior is, they gave their all for the club. Even if one or two of them had their limitations as players.
Prior, now in the twighlight of his career, must be thanking his lucky stars he is playing at Championship level again, this time with Southend United.
September 27th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Wasn’t there a rumour that the shirt sponsors wanted their name relocated from Prior’s shirt to the soles of his boots because he fell over so much it would be seen more often if they did that?