The biggest crime was that he was, at one stage, an extremely talented footballer who could have been pushing for full England honours at one stage, and he seemed to give up on being the very best he could very quickly. There is no one single factor which caused our double relegation, and you certainly couldn’t say it was all Jamie O’Hara’s fault. Being a passive presence who drifted through games, ruling himself out of contention quite publicly in what was still a theoretical relegation fight, not having the wit or guile to work out that what he was doing on the pitch wasn’t helping us, a refusal to work on the weakest areas of his game, deciding that Twitter was an appropriate medium through which to tell the world how tough it is being a professional footballer, thinking it was a good idea to grant a bizarre interview with Tim Nash to give “his side of the story” while he was still contracted to the club – well, pretty much all of that is his fault. When you’re being paid as much as Jamie O’Hara was and you’ve been earmarked as the star of the show, that just isn’t good enough.
