Dear reader, this is my last tango with you. You are reading my contribution to this column for the last time.
It is sad to say, but time comes when change becomes inevitable. I am bidding you farewell. It has been good making comments every other week knowing there are people like you who look forward to reading my views regardless of whether they agreed with me or not. Or worse still, whether I offered drivel to you. It will be untrue for me to tell you writing a sports column is easy. I really have no idea how we managed to clock 10 years writing this column. Jeers!
Back in the days when I used to earn a living from the newsroom for almost 16 years, I held a belief that writing a column is the exclusive preserve of infinitely knowledgeable people who had built experience as either journalists or professionals in their respective fields. I realised later this was not the case. Anyone can take a chance and throw some drab writing, bothered less if people enjoyed what they read or not. I mean, how often have you come across some colourful and yet frivolous sports columns and still no readers complain? Substance is no longer the key. The motivation is to fill the space and allow the editor to send the damn newspaper to the printers. Bingo!
