Sekou lad, what are you doing?

ALBION'S dreary defending against Hull brought to mind another game, from another time.

Then assistant boss Frank Burrows watched Sekou Berthe - remember him? - perform a 'step over' and then execute a back heel across his own goalmouth during a League game at Gillingham back in 2003.

Burrows raced into the technical area and threw his flat cap onto the ground in utter disgust at Berthe's wanton act of defensive treachery. This was a period where stoppers cleared the ball into touch or down the field.

Quite what Frank would have made of Albion's defending against Hull on Saturday is open to question. Although you can guarantee his reaction would have had a spot of Norman Wisdom about it.

Another time, during a training drill on the club's pre-season tour of Denmark, the same player dropped his shoulder and tried to dribble the ball out of his own penalty area. Gary Megson stopped the session soon afterwards and yelled at SB: "...You can cut that fancy French c**p out while you're at it..."

Fair comment - or at least it would have been had Berthe been from France, as opposed to Mali.

It could also explain why he only played four times for the club.

(With thanks to Albion's matchday programme for jogging my memory)