Croatia: Robert Prosinecki

Nothing can impact upon a footballer’s career quite like a sticking sobriquet. But imagine being branded ‘Glass Legs’, the moniker afforded Robert Prosinecki in his injury-ravaged Primera Liga days.

Nothing can impact upon a footballer’s career quite like a sticking sobriquet.

To be branded ‘the new George Best’ at Manchester United, for example, is tantamount to having a millstone hung around one’s neck.