| Super Adekola |
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| 'We've got something you've not got, Super Adekola, Super super Ad, Super super Ad, Super super Ad, Super Adekola.' David Adekola burst onto the scene in 1993, and with him he brought experience of playing football at the very highest level all over Europe. He had played for Nantes, had a Nigerian Under 18s World Champions Medal and had played for numerous other clubs........or so we thought. At the time, it was both unknown and unimportant that he was about as at home with the truth as Jeffrey Archer in the witness box, because he knew what a set of goalposts looked like and, more to the point, he knew how to stick the ball in the back of the net. He scored about seven goals in ten games at the start of his Bury career including a fantastic hat-trick at Scarborough in a run of nine wins out of ten games and although the goals then kind of dried up, he was still our hero. The following season he was a bit poor to be honest and never really recaptured his earlier form. |
| Give us a smile, David |
| Of all the rumours surrounding David Adekola (and there were many) surely the best was the one that told of him having been signed by Manchester United and loaned to Bury to give him some match practice and get his fitness back. He would then join the Old Trafford boys in the summer and win them the league. It actually seemed reasonable for a while. David lived in Tottington. In fact he lived on the same street as my wife's family and I am told all the kids on the street used to play with him. He was just one of those guys who everyone loved. That big wide smile with his incredibly white teeth lighting up our lives for a while in the mid-nineties. Brilliant. After he left, he went to all sorts of clubs. He once turned up playing for Wigan in a Boxing Day match on a waterlogged pitch and the response he received from the Bury fans must have confused the hell out of the Wigan supporters. He seems to have disappeared now but after he left Bury, it transpired that he hadn't quite got the pedigree he claims to have had. Several large European clubs who he had 'played for' had never heard of him. Neither had the Nigerian FA which is strange. You thought they would remember one of their former internationals. David Adekola was a star. |