Worst Sickness I Had In My Life

Auba admits ‘lazy’ tag hurt

- Matthew Dunn

Three days lying in a hospital recovering from feeling as sick as you ever have done in your life can give a man cause for reflection.

What the pundits had described as “laziness” and a “little mafia” attitude had turned out to be full-blown malaria.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang admits the criticism got to him.

“When you see that it hurts because I’m a human being,” he said. “But this is part of football and you have to accept criticism. When you did what I did the past few years, people are waiting a lot for me. This is just normal.