He’ll still get a clap from me… just!
He’s coming across as deluded in his own abilities and why he wasn’t playing when he thought he should be. However, saying he was fuming and raging and it was unfair that he wasn’t playing doesn’t override the good things he did for us. It’s not like he’s slagged anyone off, he just comes across as completely self-unaware.
The missing kids’ birthdays thing is the worst bit. How does he think people in the army or who work out in the North Sea on oil rigs who spend six months at a time or more away from their families go on? But again, it’s just a mega-rich footballer, who’s never lived in the real world as an adult, with no self-awareness talking bollocks rather than slagging anyone off.
So he’s just on the right side of thin ice with me, but I’ll still clap him… but no cheer!