So I'm presuming, hopefully with that being complacent, that the majority of those who listen

to the big interview or who've become socials, our great friends who support the podcast and the Q&A largely think that when I go off

when I follow themes in the interviews that whether you fully agree or not, normally my points of

you aren't ridiculous and certainly aren't conjured up for effect.

I think I trust that across my career one of the things that separated me out, one of the things that's helped me maintain this dream job has been the honesty of my passion in certain ideas.

Everybody's got that. Everybody's got ideas, everybody's got passion about their interpretations,

their feelings. Maybe sometimes that's in your private life or rather than in your profession if the job that you have to do isn't as

necessarily as inspirational as I find mine.

But I'm talking about all of this because I often find myself passionately happy or passionately

angry about things that I encounter in my job and today's column written for ESPNFC is is definitely one of those.

Over the few days since Madrid beat Myorca at the Bernabale.

There's been a spate of finger-pointing accusations and counter accusations

across a single subject, which is whether Vinicius was more victim or provocateur during the 401 went over Javier's site.

I'm going to read you the column and make the case, but this intro, although I try to keep it relatively brief, is a place where I can say that I genuinely believe that some of the media coverage of Vinicius

has atoned to it, has almost always had a tone to it, which wouldn't be similar if he were a white Spaniard. Racism is a big word. I think that a lot of the ways in which

Phoenicious is portrayed or described a lot of the reactions to them are

subconscious rather than necessarily deliberate.

I used to believe when I used to use a word which is self-smoking but when I used to

crusade on his behalf about about the way he was described as a forward as a finisher the way in which his his capacity to think cleanly and coldly on the football pitch

when people got hysterical about how

How they described his occasional failure to make the right pass his occasional failure to finish

I thought it was wildly out of tune with what I was seeing,

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