Very often interviews with footballers tend to be a bit boring. There are usually a couple of good reasons for that. The first is that access to players these days is very strictly managed, therefore anything that rocks the boat could see the interview ended prematurely, or scupper any future access the interviewer might want. The second is that lots of footballers are a bit boring themselves. Media trained up the wazoo, they'll talk all day but say very little. They chat about working hard, improving, focus, the priority of winning every game, giving their best on the pitch, doing it for the fans, and all that. We've all seen it and heard it a thousand million billion times before. It's...
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