“Maybe if Marcus Edwards were born in Brazil or Argentina, today he would be one of the most interesting prospects in football in the world.
Maybe all the big teams would be fighting to buy him. But he is at Tottenham, he is in England and, at 17, he is still a kid.
We cannot appreciate he is a man, nearly a man, and he deserves to play.
That is the cultural difference.”
Cultural?
Cult spelled wrong more like.
I’ve ‘joshed’ about Poch being over chatty over the last few days, but we’ve now hit a Arry Redschnapps scale of verbal diarrhea.
Whilst Poch talks up his ‘nearly men’ to anyone who’ll listen I’ll be waiting for the actually game to start and the actual performance to unfold.
Marcus Edwards is probably not a bad person.
But right now, he’s a haircut with some obligatory tattoos.
We’re listening to the after-slosh of Levy’s enema.