“I’ve got too much respect for the manager, for all the backroom staff, I’ve got too much respect for my teammates,' Stuart Findlay said of staying with the Union for an extra week.
What happened with Stuart Findlay in his last week with the Union is unusual, in soccer or any sport.
Findlay could easily have put his foot down and said he was leaving on July 10, when he was originally supposed to, and that would have been that. There would have been no risk of injury, no risk of offending Oxford by showing up late, and no headache having to unpack the belongings that he and his wife had already put away.
“I’ve got too much respect for the manager, for all the backroom staff; I’ve got too much respect for my teammates in that situation,” he said. “I was never going to let them down. When I realized I had to get called upon for that last week, one, I would never let anybody down; two, I thought it would be a nice way to bow out. And especially after we got the two victories, I was proven correct with it.”He sure was.
That is not something to take for granted, even if it’s something fans don’t often think about. When European teams make signings, the odds are decent that those players might have played against the team they’re joining, or against some of those players elsewhere, or maybe with them. Or maybe a new teammate knows someone else who put in a good word.
Turning back to matters on the field, Findlay gave his successor as the Union’s No. 3 centerback, Brandan Craig, a big endorsement.
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