I keep thinking that his time just wasn't up. If he was anywhere else, at home, training elsewhere, in the car, anywhere except on a pitch in that scenario, the chances are he'd be gone. That's the frightening thing.
Does this also not surely raise the question of modern elite players being asked to play far too much football these days ? Questions need to be asked about this. Look at Harry Kane today....the bloke looked fucked after 30 mins. He's exhausted. Something's got to be peared back in terms of workload on these players. Yes they get paid huge amounts of money, but I doubt there's a player anywhere on the planet who wants to be the richest in the cemetery..
That argument that "well they get paid X amount of week so what have they got to complain about?" always pisses me off. Yes, they
do get paid far too much but a lot of that isn't their fault and at the end of the day, they're still human beings.
And if you've got a human being who is exerting themselves to that level all the time, week in, week out, then it's going to take a toll.
Look at what's happening next year with the World Cup scheduled to take place between November and December. By the time we get to the end of next season's Premier League campaign, you'll have most players having played football solidly for around two years straight with little to no break.
And if the Premier League extend next season just so they can have the full round of 38 games, then you're again looking at hardly any break for the players before pre-season starts for the following season as well.
Is it any wonder Kane's ankles always cause him problems ?. If he was given a solid month off with no training, no games, no nothing then I imagine that would do him the world of good. I would hate to think it's going to take a player actually dying on the field to force football to do something.