Ever since Yaya Touré stepped in to disembroil one of modern football’s most serious cake-centred imbroglios – emphatically confirming that only he speaks for himself, not his spokesperson, who had earlier for some mystifying reason spoken for him, but who does in fact also speak for him and don’t worry because everything he said is true – a most ungenerous narrative has taken hold. It is one that dares to suggest the Ivorian birthday boy’s disgruntlement may not principally be about birthday cake at all.
That’s not fair. If Yaya, via his agent, who he not in the least bit strangely calls “Dad”, was in fact seeking to send a message to his dishdashed Abu Dhabian overlords, what message had they, through the complex medium of cake, been looking to send to him?
Look beneath the sugar-dusted surface, and the politics of cake are dark indeed. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/yaya-toure-comment-how-the-turbulent-politics-of-cake-revealed-that-all-is-not-sweetness-and-light-between-toure-and-his-abu-dhabian-employers-9428750.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 28750.html</a>