The best football teams are adept at turning defence into attack. After a video of centre back Kurt Zouma practising his distribution with a pet cat led to calls for his prosecution, teammate Michael Antonio responded to the press with a question of his own: ‘Do you think what he’s done is worse than racism?’
While we could dismiss this as a fairly blatant piece of whataboutery, it’s also quite an interesting question.
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