Finishing second to Liverpool is a feat in itself and their consistency should be lauded
Arsenal's Bukayo Saka (r), Martin Odegaard (l) and Kai Havertz have all been injured at one stage during the season.
Arsenal's Bukayo Saka (r), Martin Odegaard (l) and Kai Havertz have all been injured at one stage during the season.
Jonathan Wilson
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One of the problems with sport, imported from heart-warming mid-90s books about man feelings and their attendant movie adaptations featuring Colin Firth looking sad in a hoodie, is the idea that football in particular has something to tell us about life. In many ways this is correct. It’s just that the things football has to tell us are not always good or helpful.
For example, the concept of the Zero-sum game. It’s not a Zero-sum game. People say this a lot now, often in the context of some reductive and binary argument, the kind of internet shouting match where there can only be one winner, that for one party to succeed must necessarily be bad for everyone else, without nuance or shared benefits and burdens. Grown-ups are always insisting that it’s not a Zero-sum game.