Agreed..wouldn't want him having my back.

Excuse me.

It's pretty normal for yoof to be seduced by flashy players, brilliant moments of skill and glamorous stars. When they follow their teams week in week out they discover that they can have bad matches, s*** days at the office and embarrassing moments. My 9-yo is currently having this experience with Real Madrid and he will learn that 99% of what a footballer has to do to be any good is hard work, boring, disciplined, chasing balls, closing down, being in the right place, bailing out team-mates and that's just the bit that involves playing in actual matches. He thinks Harry Kane for example is great and would like him at Real Madrid, but this afternoon he saw him miss more than one sitter and nearly drop two points as a result whilst a hard-working and organised defence made him look a bit more human.

Some of them then see overpaid prime donne who consider themselves entitled to the Champions' League trophy and reason that c'est magnifique, mais ce n'st pas le foot.

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Try reading the rest of my post. It's a phase.

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I shouldn't be showing off my erudition, but is that not very close to what was said by a senior French officer around the time of the Charge of the Light Brigade?

Considering how he was left isolated for most of the time I thought Benteke did well.

He kept winning the knock-ons in the air, but there was no one to feed off them.

I was slightly disappointed by his new strike-partner. He had a couple of good runs with the ball, but some of his passes were very careless and he seems timid ( to the point of non-existent) when it comes to tackling. I’m also looking for a grittier, more determined attitude.

Cheers for the info