Prove It Then Mumf

PROVE US WRONG THEN MUMF

Forgetting last season for a second and looking back to the 2001/2002 season and Andrew Mumford was voted player of the year. Not bad for a twenty year old player who had really only established himself as a first team regular that season. The fans had asked that he get a two year contract and the board had reacted by letting him have one. And then it all went sour.

He was carried away with his own hype. Maybe not only a fault of his own but he was certainly carried away with it. Reports of drinking and attitude problems surfaced and a change of management forced him out of the reckoning for a first team place and his days at Swansea looked numbered. This culminated in Brian Flynn making him available on a free transfer shortly after the season ended and a further statement that said he will not figure in the first team plans for the coming season. But at present he remains a first team squad member albeit it appears to be in name only.

Mumford himself has said in tonight’s Evening Post that he will not report back with the squad next week for pre-season training and that he will fly off to Scotland to spend a couple of days with Raith Rovers – to date the only side that seem to have confirmed interest in the Welsh Under-21 international.

The article claims that along with Oxford, Grimsby and York have shown an interest in him and he ‘will be taking a look at them’ – a reminder here to Mumf that there were some 600 professionals out of contract this summer – offers are not going to be flowing in.

Andrew Mumford does have a chance to prove people wrong and that he should not have been released but that chance is purely in his own hands. If he wants to prove us wrong then I would suggest it needs to be through a change in his basic habits and go back two years when he let his football do the talking. He has a talent and he should use it but one swallow does not make a summer and all that – constant hard work and right attitude is the answer.

You have to realise that his attitude is wrong with this line ”Raith have offered me a two-year contract and I’m flying up to spend a couple of days with them tomorrow before going to Oxford next week. Depending on how it all goes, I might go and have a look at Yeovil too.” In other words if he fails to impress the first two he will have a look at the latter. Not likely to keep any real interest from Yeovil going is it? (Sadly this would probably be the best move for him as they have good potential down in Somerset!)

Personally nothing would please me more than too see Mumford prove us wrong and if he does then we should congratulate him on turning it all around but it’s in his destiny and he has to realise that. Maybe more thinking for himself and less to others around him and he may be able to work it out for himself. No-one has a divine right to be a professional footballer and the sooner he realises that the better.

Good luck in the future Mumf, at the moment you will need it – less talk and more action and you may just realise exactly what you have and how close you are to losing it all.

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