The F5 Rejig: How’s Marco Coping?

22 February 2012 By ossi 0 In Chat

Image: Valerio Pennicino/Getty Images Europe.

We know how important the Finest 5 list is to you guys. Our beleaguered comments moderator’s refusal to come out from underneath her desk when we do an update tells us that.

But in your haste to complain at us for leaving out the likes of Sergio, Aaron, Fernando and David James (ahem), have you lot even stopped to think about the effect that these lists have on the players? The agony of rejection, the realisation that your goods are no longer sufficient to keep the Kickette staffers visually stimulated?

The pressure must be awful.

Image: Valerio Pennicino/Getty Images Europe.

Take Marco Borriello, for instance. Before the latest list broke free last Tuesday, we could clearly see his nerves and almost felt his sweaty palms as he anxiously awaited the news.

And when he found out he’d slipped from second to fourth in the definitive meter of ‘baller hotness?

Let’s just say he didn’t take it too well.

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