There’s always a taste thrill, a flavour of the month in football, some player we all lavish unadulterated praise on, till he turns out to be not as good as we said, or a tastier mortal comes along. For about half an hour, Arsenal’s Aubameyang had us drooling, with the Guardian slavering all over him for a whole page – which of course turned out to be the weekend in which he was pretty useless and got substituted.
Liverpool’s Mo Salah has been raved about for two years now, but a few chinks have surfaced, clever clogs are now pointing out that he can disappear in games, and he’s not as brutally focused and totally self-confident as, say, Cristiano Ronaldo.
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