Colin Sheridan: Could O’Connor pull a Griezmann on the 40?
PLUS CA CHANGE: France's Antoine Griezmann during the FIFA World Cup final at Lusail Stadium. Picture: Martin Rickett/PA Wire.
One of the enduring onfield stories of last month's World Cup was the evolution and reinvention of French ingenue Antoine Griezmann. For those of us who like our superstars quiet and humble, Griezmann in his mid-20s pomp was an easy figure to hate. Cocky as an Eastend geezer, handsome as a movie star, he scored goals for fun, first for Atletico, then for France and celebrated each by sticking out his thumb and little finger on both hands and shaking them like vibrating telephones, apparently in homage to Canadian rapper Drake and his song Hotline Bling.
To compound matters, he chose the medium of “lavish documentary” to end speculation and tell Atleti fans he would not be leaving Madrid for Barca, before skipping to the Nou Camp the following summer for a fee a little over £100m.
