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SUHAIL SEEDAT wonders whether we are too quick to condemn modern day footballers, seeing them as overpaid spoilt brats rather than anti-heroes

FOOTBALL has been littered with characters of great diversity. The common man, the gentleman, the drunkard, the playboy. Some of those are in fact, rolled into one.
But there has been this emergence of an enigmatic genius, which leaves the British viewer feeling largely angry and joyful at their misfortune.
They are often misunderstood and portrayed as the direct result of the influence money has within football. They are the anti-heroes of foot...

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