Tommy Martin: Erling Braut Haaland pillaging with the menace and madness of the Vikings

By looking at Haaland in action, you can actually get a sense for what being ravaged by Norsemen might have been like for the panic-stricken residents of an Irish monastic retreat or Anglo-Saxon hamlet

Erling Haaland celebrates scoring Borussia Dortmund's second goal against Sevilla on Tuesday. (Bernd Thissen/Pool via AP)

It is presumably highly insulting for a modern Scandinavian person to be compared to a Viking.

Even if that person is as big, belligerent, and obviously intent on plunder as Erling Braut Haaland.