Denis Law was the kind of football hero that our broadcasters encourage us to forget when they take a brush and slather wide swathes of paint over the great players of the past and tell us that nothing of worth existed before the Premier League and English football’s Year Zero of 1992.
When news emerged on Friday, a few hours before Law’s death was announced, that Erling Haaland had signed a new nine-year deal at Manchester City, some of the talk centred around how much more likely it now was that the Norway striker would break ‘Alan Shearer’s record’.