Usain Bolt A League hopes took a significant positive step forward with two goals in a friendly on Friday night. But will it be enough to secure him a contract?
The two goals certainly are a great headline, but the all round play was still lacking, but had promise.
We are all behind the Usain Bolt A League tilt, and are full of hope and confidence that we will make it.
Perhaps he won’t start the season against the Brisbane Roar in Round One, but we hope there’s plenty of Usain Bolt A League talk by the end of the season.
As ever though, we take a moment is sport and give it our usual spin and thoughts, so we present our hopes for the next batch of A League Marquee Crossovers.
ADEBAYO AKINFENWA
Before we get too silly, we would love to see the man known as The Beast out in Australia for one season before he retires.
He recently scored his 200th goal in UK Football, a journey that has seen travel across the country and play for many third and fourth division teams.
People could say his age, body building size and limited career in third and fourth tier in England would mean he’d be a terrible A League recruit. But they don’t know anything, and just a little trip to Youtube would see what he has to offer. Especially against the bigger EPL sides in the FA Cup.
Adebayo Akinfenwa would be a crowd favorite and a welcome addition to any A League club, and the game itself.
Now, onto the increasingly more absurd ones from other sports…
THE HONEY BADGER
More famous now for not scoring on The Bachelor than scoring on the rugby field, his life now revolves around being harassed by ACA “journalists” hiding in bushes waiting for a media ambush. A spot usually reserved for the dodgiest of builders, angriest of neighbours, and shonkiest of car salesman.
So he needs to get back into sport and quick to escape the clutches of the awful people at Channel Nein.
Why not head to the A League then we say.
Not only would he have the silky skills to feature somewhere in the midfield, he would add some media interest in a sports that has very few genuine characters now that Clive Palmer and Miron Bleiberg are no longer involved.
MO FARAH
If you’re to get another star athlete to come and be a A League Marquee Crossover, then why not a man who is more suited to the long distances that a football would require.
Mo Farah is a long distance runner par excellence, and that has been one thing lacking with the Usain Bolt A League attempt.
Sure Mo isn’t quite as tall as the Jamaican, but he wouldn’t be to far behind with speed, and he sure would have the advantage in long-term stamina.
You can picture him towards the front, zipping in and out of defence, and he would sure know how to track back.
GORDON RAMSEY
The famous Chef was a trialist with Rangers before he became the famous swearing Chef, so the world of Football is not strange to him.
Although age may well be against him, he still looks fit as and could still play a part on and off the field.
You could imagine him as a tough, no-nonsense defender who would see plenty of red cards as much as you could see him popping into the kitchen to cook up some healthy food for the players.
KEVIN MAGNUSSEN
Every sport needs a villain or at minimum a Jerk, and since Kevin Muscat no longer plays, what about F1’s biggest Jerk in Kevin Magnussen.
He has an exotic Scandinavian sounding name that would attract interest as an A League Marquee Crossover, and would surely be fit enough to play A League football if he is fit enough to race an F1 car.
Whether or not he has any interest in Football doesn’t matter to us, we’d see him as a great defensive midfielder who’d chip in with the occasional surprise goal.
WILLIE MINOGA
Although we can’t recall ever seeing Willie Minoga kick a soccer ball, the deity of PNG rugby league would surely be able to do anything.
Football aka Soccer does have a reputation for being a little soft, so the inclusion of the PNG Freight Train would send shock waves to the A League, and an explosion of interest in the A League for the 7 million odd people of PNG.
Definitely as striker in the style of Adebayo Akinfenwa, who could scare opposition defences into mistakes.
KARMICHAEL HUNT
Since he only has A League Football left to complete the grand slam of professional football codes in Australia, we say that someone should give him a go.
If he can stay off the gear for long enough, and do the hard work required, we could easily see him as a dangerous winger, with a lethal pin point cross into the box and be an assist machine.
JARRYD HAYNE
Surely he has a dream to be an A League Marquee Crossover.
Especially after waiting for three quarters of a season to have a decent contribution to the Parramatta Eels season, which ended in wooden spoon.
He has still yet to sign with the EEls for 2019. Perhaps he IS waiting for an A League club to come calling.
