IN THE centre pages of the brand new The Square Ball featuring an exclusive interview with Howard Wilkinson, we roll back the years to a time when a football man set the Leeds United agenda and we fans reaped the rewards.
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SEEING him with the ball at his feet might have been like observing a giraffe’s attempts to make friends with a baby elephant, and his Quixotic sojourn in Spain may have ended without a single start for Albacete, but Trésor Kandol is soon to ring out from the dancehalls of his native Congo.
A track, performed live in the clip above, bearing the enigmatic former Leeds United frontman’s name appears on the forthcoming album “Techno Malewa Vol. 2″ by Congolese soukous ndombolo supergroup Wenge Musica Maison Mère.
Now, pardon my Congolese French but one has to wonder what its lyrics are all about. Could it be his goooal in a Scouse shiiit hooollle? His multiple driving offences and notoriously short fuse? Or even his Man of the Match award versus Bristol Rovers?
But wait! Here comes another video, “Kiyungulu Trésor Kandol”, this time by UK-based artist Paguy Célé Excellence, which apparently basks in the more romantic side to our knight-errant’s personality.
I’m not prepared to entertain any thoughts that these songs could possibly be in celebration of any other Trésor Kandols out there, so if anyone knows quite how he’s come to be immortalised in verse not once, but twice then do let me know.
IN THE centre pages of the brand new The Square Ball featuring an exclusive interview with Howard Wilkinson, we roll back the years to a time when a football man set the Leeds United agenda and we fans reaped the rewards.
