Zinedine Zidane gets Real Madrid. Sergio Ramos gets Real Madrid. The real issue here, surely, is what on earth Hazard is doing at Madrid in the first place, the answer to which is a good deal more complex than it first appears. And when you are a Madrid player, you are never anything else. Football feels like an impossibly angry place at the moment: a place of disenchantment and disenfranchisement, of schism and sneering, of protest and existential crisis.

Source: The Guardian May 11, 2021 06:56 UTC