It was American Football Coach, Oail Andrew ‘Bum’ Phillips, who once quipped that there are two kinds of coaches: those that are fired and those that will be fired.
Felix Okey Emordi, on Sunday, July 19, joined the list of those fired, perhaps, for the first time since their Premier League career – Emordi has always had to part with his past employers on mutual consent.
But the signs of a marching order had long been there for the 2005 Confederation of African Football (CAF) Coach of the Year. As the cliche goes, only the blind wouldn’t have seen the build-up to the decision taken as a first task by the new board of Kano Pillars led by businessman and football buff, Kabiru Baita.
Baita was announced last Sunday by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as the board chairman of the club that has won the Glo Premier League in the last three seasons, the same day Kano Pillars surrendered a three goals lead in Makurdi to draw with hosts, Lobi Stars.
According to lmc.com, it was one lead surrendered too many for Emordi as manager and turned out that Baita’s first responsibility had to be to respond to the eager yearnings of the passionate but increasingly restive Kano Pillars fans.
