Ola Aina’s Witty Quip on Salah Stay…
Nottingham Forest’s fortress somehow holds against the unstoppable Egyptian Pharaoh, aka Mohamed Salah! Twice this season, the Forest warriors have donned their magic cloaks to keep him from finding the net. Still, news of his extended reign at Liverpool sends shivers down the merry spines of Premier League defenses. Ola Aina, Nottingham’s cheeky sentinel, let out an exaggerated groan when he heard the news. “He’s signed again? The league is finished!” he bellowed, as if the end of football days was nigh.
But for Aina, this is just the menopausal jest of a defender who’s peeked into the lion’s den without getting eaten. As grabs of goal-hungry jaws snap around him, he’s had the luck twice to escape untouched. His jest reflected the universal dread that Salah inspires; a vibrating pharaoh of havoc who leaves defenders in a twist like New Year’s confetti. Despite whispers of his penalty stats or alleged late-season yawns, everyone knows when Salah’s on fire, the nets quake!
Oh, the legends of the pitch! Even Neco Williams, once a Liverpool lad, tussled bravely with his former sidekick, holding strong at Forest. As these stories write themselves, Liverpool loyalists dream of a dynamic duo’s encore with Salah and maybe the great Virgil van Dijk too! Lock those gates, because here comes Salah, and Aina knows he’s not wagging his tongue for nothing when he says it: the league, dear readers, might very well be quivering!
