Kurt Zouma kicked a cat and slapped it hard in the face and I won't look at him in the same way again.
Nor will anybody else who saw the phone footage and heard the giggling and the laughing that was its soundtrack.
The short film will follow him for the rest of his career. It will embarrass him wherever he goes. Kurt the Catkicker is a soubriquet that will not fade easily.
Zouma, has been widely condemned after a video emerged of him allegedly hitting the animal
Zouma will have to learn to live with a new reputation not just for being cruel but for being unbelievably stupid for allowing his brother to film him being cruel.