Footballers praising their team-mates in interviews is to be expected.
Just imagine if a journalist asked you about one of your colleagues. You’re probably not going to tell them that your colleague is a blithering idiot who shares loads of Brexity drivel on Facebook, even if your colleague’s a blithering idiot who shares loads of Brexity drivel on Facebook. After all, you have to share an office (or Teams chat) with that blithering idiot.
You’d keep your answer civil. You might even offer some faint praise in a vain attempt to build team morale. ‘They make a t’riffic cuppa,’ you might say. ‘Never wastes their time and mine offering that herbal muck. Always puts just the right amount of milk in.’
But there’s praise and there’s praise. And when Neymar was asked about his team-mate Marco Verratti after Paris Saint-Germain beat Real Madrid 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League tie on Tuesday night at the Parc des Princes, he went for the nuclear option.
Read the full article on Verratti’s genius pass here.
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