It's the Agenda, again.
The media needs the give heaps of adulation to the sanctimonious Spuds, the epitome of english-ness club, populated with the likes of Saint Harry Kane of Totteringham, authentic english players that come through their youth ranks and play for free for the love of their english lily-white shirt as opposed to the unlikable foreign mercenaries bought with bottomless bags of nasty Arab money. There is an ingrained form of racism on that discourse. And of course the new tactical genius is useful for that purpose trying to twist the facts and make Walker be looked under some sort of traitorous light.
Fuck Off You Spuds.