‘Trent Alexander-Arnold fanboys are deluded – fairly passes do not excuse large lack of ability’
BRENT A GOB: This week, Harry Brent rips into ‘deluded’ Trent Alexander-Arnold fanboys and commentators who refuse to stay neutral on Champions League nights
Our man Harry Brent is fuming in his latest column
The “Trent Alexander-Arnold for England” brigade are an odd bunch – odder than Arsenal fans booing their team off on Saturday despite being nine points clear at the top.
Like flat-earthers and Martin Keown, they cling to silly opinions despite all evidence suggesting they shouldn’t. In reality, they’re missing the point as spectacularly as Liam Delap misses chances.
No one is denying how gifted Trent is on the ball – but off it, he’s more problematic than Kanye West and a total liability of Arrizabalagian proportions.
No amount of Hollywood passes will ever mask his weaknesses. And if you think otherwise, then, like Wayne Rooney’s managerial career, you’re beyond saving.
Can the coddling, commentators
What I hate most about Champions League week is that commentators turn into sycophantic child-minders.
They aren’t there to describe a football match – they’re there to tuck us in, kiss our foreheads, and act like a concerned parent as the big, bad foreign team tears through “our” boys like Liz Truss through the British economy.
When an English side concedes a goal, their voice drops like a bloke watching his car get towed with his dog still in the back. It’s performative grief so overcooked that even Prince Harry might tell them to rein it in.
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Fans don’t need commentators patronising them by mourning on their behalf, or sounding as miserable as Tottenham supporters watching a 0-0 draw away at Lincoln City next season.
Plus, I’d wager most viewers are only tuning in for the hate watch. They want to see their rivals get slapped around like a dodgy Wi-Fi router, not serenaded by the broadcasting equivalent of overzealous parents on sports day.
Just call the game down the middle, you dweebs. If fans can’t handle a bit of matchday neutrality then, like Todd Boehly and his circus of spreadsheet-loving, algorithm-fondlers, they should probably find another sport.
