You say that like it’s a bad thing?
Normally I have to eke out the close season doing some freelance Moderating on mumsnet. This summer I’ll be drinking champagne out my shoe.
But how many players would want to follow him? Sure, some might - if they don’t mind playing industrialised football where you are effectively a component that’s been machined to fit into rigid system.
Which is ok until one of the bits breaks and then the whole machine smashes itself up.
But it’s not part of the game. It’s an unwelcome and intrusive bolt-on in just ten fixtures out of the hundreds of matches played up and down the country every week. And it’s utterly woeful, fundamentally flawed and massively unsuited to football.
Just bin it. They tried it, we’ve given it 5...