Morten P. about Lundekvams book: Reprehensible, sad and unnecessary – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet
Commendably that Claus Lundekvam choose the harshest treatment of them toward self-abuse and addiction. It takes courage for completely unmasked publish a broken life between two covers. And had he been content with that – his own hell – I’d applauded the former Premier League- and national team player’s brutal honesty and self-examination.

The fact that he commonplace makes drug abuse and sex trade, cuts all footballers over a comb and not just go with all of his old teammates from Southampton, Fire and Norway – happens where it must happen in any football – is reprehensible.

WHAT’S in the locker room, being in the locker room. States. It is one of football’s unwritten laws. And whoever is hardest enforced. Not necessarily because it gets done or said very much that can not withstand the light of day within a football private sphere, but because that’s how it is.

And the inner justice is fierce.

MANY football players do broken this code in biographies and other introspective book publications. The most revealing and well-known book about Norwegian football, whoever 15 years ago tore down wardrobe door to Drillos 98 teams and Nils Johan Semb 2000 team, was penned by Håvard Rem. “Erik Mykland: upbringing, lifestyle, EM 2000, playing” gave us an insight into how individual named internationals really took EM 2000 seriously through using author motorhome haven.

The book also told us how the national team support after the sensational victory over Brazil in the 1998 World Cup, gave players sleeping pills for fear that some would plump out in a water hole.

ERIK MYKLAND BROKE code because he had a mission. He was tired of what he thought was the national management hypocrisy, unwanted interference, generalization and double standards. Did he fancy a beer he could drink beer, believed mosquitoes. Those who did not fancy a beer could refrain. They could, for example, playing solitaire. And I remember critical players say that the revelations in Havard Rems book was a violation of the national team’s unwritten code wardrobe.

Especially the one about unnamed, naked and beer-drinking internationals in a camper in the parking lot outside the player hotel, got through.

THERE ARE MANY years ago hair longer stand on my head. For that I have been with for a long time, reading too much and heard too many stories. But I must admit that Claus Lundekvams total self-examination made me raise an eyebrow.

Not because Claus Lundekvams life has been a living hell, we knew from before.

But because he doing all he has played with the potential whore customers and party drug-abusers.

Claus Lundekvam ER of course not the only footballer with such problems. We know that. And it makes the book important. Football industry is made up of many layers. But it is as bad as he says is hard to believe. And it makes the book to a problem.

WHEN Claus Lundekvam says that drunkenness, sex trade and drugs to be the rule when football is about – be it in the Premier League, Premier League or national team – he tears wardrobe doors off the hinges in Southampton, Fire and Ullevaal Stadium. It’s just sad. And very unnecessary. For some footballers here or there – and so we must be honest, there are enough documented stories – is not all footballers all the time.

The allegations do not therefore Claus Lundekvams hardest battle any favors.