After news spread last week about Alex Song’s sacking by Sion for reportedly refusing to take a paycut amid coronavirus crisis, it prompted critics to look back at the player’s career and how the one-time promising midfielder deteriorated after his Arsenal departure.
Usually when a curious lover of the sport types in a player’s name in the YouTube search bar, they are on the lookout for goals and dribbles for attacking players, while it’s saves for goalkeepers.
It takes an overly probing aficionado to type in ‘Alex Song’ on the video-sharing platform given the Cameroon star wasn’t the most flashy, well his eccentric tinted hairstyles aside, or the guy to get you a tonne of goals and assists.