Suarez is my favourite gladiator, not Ronaldo or Messi.
I know Cristiano is taller and the most super-handsome and prolific of superstars.
But there’s something raw, relentless and primitive about the Uruguayan star.
My mate Shuki is a big Liverpool fan whose son played against Raheem when they were eleven.
I hadn’t seen Shuki lately because I hadn’t been to the gym on a Thursday.
He’s a Liverpool fan. A powerful midfielder, he played for Hajduk Split with Slaven Bilic. And after that he played for Bologna.
The last time I saw him was at the end of August, just before Jan & I went to Croatia. He’s told me a lot about the history of the Balkans.
Yesterday he was talking about Boban, a classy guy as well as a fabulous footballer, about Suker, Jarni, Asanovic, and former Real Madrid striker Mijatovic, who he says was the “the best of the best.”
He thinks Raheem Sterling will be a great player for Man City and England.
While I hope he will be, I still have reservations. But I reckon Raheem has the speed, bottle and ambition to be an important goalscorer a couple of years down the line.
He will be playing for Man City against Liverpool at 5pm and Sky are telling us that we can watch that big PL game AND Real Madrid v Barcelona on a split screen by using the red button.
I’m not gonna watch both at once.
I’ll watch Barcelona because I think Raheem’s old mate Luis Suarez will beat Real Madrid tomorrow. Some instinct tells me will be the difference.
Shuki says Suarez is his favourite current player.
I said, “If I was picking a team to play for my life, he’d be the first name on the sheet.”
Leaving the men’s changing room, I bumped into Kevin, one of the trainers, who said he’d been to Arsenal’s last two home games.
While we were talking the manager, a Man United fan, ran up the opposite stairs and saw us but we didn’t see him. So he stopped and leaned over the bannister and shouted: “Wenger is staying!”
That was his idea of a joke. He must have thought it was funny because he was laughing.
Neither of us was amused.