'If you want loyalty, get a dog.'
So the 33rd US President Harry S Truman famously said.
Or supposedly said.
What he actually said, at least according to most references, was this: 'If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.'
Although according to many political historians that is not quite accurate, either.
Of one thing we can be reasonably sure. If the only world leader ever to use nuclear weapons in war were alive today and interested in what the Americans call soccer, he would have dropped the most commonly used version of that quote like a bomb on our game.