Not really. Sure, I’m using that phrasing but it’s the same discussion. Politics have always been involved in sport.

Are you suggesting that geopolitics have nto been involved in sports before now?

Which is why the team was basically built around him. He’d win the ball back, beat the press, then hand it off to Eriksen who would orchestrate the attack.

If only he could pass or shoot the ball as well as he did everything else.