I read somewhere that "When you choose a life partner you're choosing your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 70 vacations, your retirement friend, career therapist, & someone whose day you'll hear about 18,000 times" and I really can't stress this enough.
Soccer is the most European of sports because while the athletes are real and there is actual activity, the final outcomes are determined by procedural manipulation of random bureaucrats
If I was a footballer, I would just learn the most random sentences in the languages of my opponents in perfect accent. Whispering "I am quite fond of chamomile tea" to Haaland in perfect Norwegian would break his concentration more than any defending you could do...
One of my favorite things about him is that he’ll unleash these 5 minute stand up comedy sets in the middle of the most unrelated press conference imaginable