For a man as seemingly intelligent as Gareth Southgate, he displayed something of a blind spot when it came to his selection of Jordan Henderson as England captain.
Southgate expressed his surprise that England fans booed Henderson but surely he can’t be that obtuse?
Football fans can sometimes be deluded and have a sense of entitlement but you can fool some people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Fans know the world and they know that footballers are prone to having observations without any substance.