Get to know the other Ibra

I see our old friend Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been ruffling feathers again, this time with comments which Pia Sundhage, coach of the Sweden women’s team, branded “boring” and “sad”.

The background to the controversy was that while Anders Svensson was presented with a new Volvo for breaking Thomas Ravelli’s record of 143 international caps, the achievement by Therese Sjogran in earning a record 187 caps for the women’s team failed to get similar recognition at the same Swedish FA gala.

The simple and correct response to this anomaly, of course, is to say that neither record or both should have been acknowledged but, as is his wont, Ibra instead went off on one, whipping up a storm by suggesting that men’s and women’s football aren’t remotely comparable.