England's latest star? Don't bank on it.
If you believe what you read
in the papers and what's babbled over the phone in-lines then Adnan Januzaj is
England's next great hope, Gazza with a few extra vowels and for whom peeing in
public is something statues do rather than Jimmy Five-bellies.
The fact that a furore seems
to have developed around an 18-year-old boy, not qualified for England, who has
played well in one Premier League game says a lot about the parlous state of
football and the utter cluelessness of those who are paid very well to sort it
out, but as well as showing weakness it shows English football’s propensity for pomposity
and disregard for anything other than the next headline, its also pretty offensive.
That's because Januzaj's
peculiar history, the very reason that poaching him is still a possibility is a
sad one that is far more important than whether we can hype ourselves up about
whether it might be our year when Januzaj might under FIFA’s rules be able to
actually play for England in 2018.
