Two minutes before half-time at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium something terrible happened to Marko Marin, Red Star Belgrade’s captain, and a seductive little playmaker who had spent the previous quarter of an hour twirling about the turf like a supermarket own-brand Luka Modric.
Head up, sleeves bunched elegantly at the cuffs, Marin approached Tanguy Ndombele, jinked one way, dropped his shoulder, twitched his hips, doffed his stetson, performed an elaborate trick with his Zippo lighter, then realised too late that he’d forgotten that key element in all this, the ball.
Written by Barney Ronay at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/22/son-melt-spurs-woes-hapless-red-star-bellwether under the title “Son seems to melt away Spurs’ woes, but hapless Red Star no bellwether | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
