This season for the FC has been a disaster, rubbish on the pitch and bad luck off it. Well at least I have a bit of good news to report.You may remember me posting in February (yes February!) that we had signed Hame Lauaki from the New Zealand Warriors. Well, he has eventually got his visa! So its taken about 5 months! Apparently his living and working in NZ for 20 years, wasn't good enough proof for the British authorities that he could speak English. So he had to take a test to prove it and re-submit his application.
Now I'm all for immigration control, our country is small and can only support so many people, but the bloody messing about Hull FC have had first with Michael Crocker's visa rejection, and now with Hame's application, just shows what chaos there is at the Border Agency. I'm still waiting with baited breath to see a foreign footballer held up like this! (cynic that I am!)
Just a word about Michael Jackson. I was never a big fan of his music as I went down a more rocky route taste wise, but I could see how good he was. I was though a big fan of the Jackson 5. Michael was a couple of months older than I am, and when I was a kid it was either The Osmond's or the Jackson 5. I was a big fan of The Osmond's, but loved the Jackson's because they made such fantastic records. In fact this song I'm embedding here, 'I Want You Back' Is one of my all time favourite ever tracks.
There's been some horrid things said about Michael in his life and after his death. I for one have never believed he harmed children. I think he was a sad man that desperately wanted to grasp a little of the childhood he undoubtedly lost.
If there is one story that shows that fame and fortune isn't everything, then his story is it.
May he rest in peace, and may God bless his children.
