With its revolutionary retractable pitch, enormous LED screens, scientifically calibrated acoustics and “bottoms-up” beer-pouring system, Tottenham Hotspur’s giant 62,062-seater stadium in north London is the most ultra-modern football venue in the world.
Fittingly, it is also home to one of the world’s most futuristic footballers.
Versatile, lightning-quick, two-footed and lethal in front of goal, Son Heung-min is the paradigm of the 21st-century player. A footballer so industrious, so efficient and so finely tuned that you could be forgiven for wondering if he had been machine-engineered.
There is no superfluity with Son–no pointless tricks, no showy touches, no playing to the gallery.