Renowned journaliste Stan Collymore has a remarkable ability to mix some nuanced and cogent insights to football with some absolutely barmy ones.
His comments this afternoon on Sergio Aguero fall into the latter category. Ahead of City's waltz through West Ham, Aguero gave an interview to Geoff Shreeves of Sky Sports. He conducted the interview in Spanish, something which did not impress Stan Collymore:
Modern players, whether they are average, poor or greats like Aguero..
Should be speaking English after 5 years.— Stan Collymore ❤️🖤 (@StanCollymore) August 28, 2016
Aguero does, in fact, speak English, but prefers to conduct his interviews in Spanish. Given the English tabloid media's proclivity for sensationalising anodyne comments, this is perhaps an understandable PR move by Aguero. This was pointed out to Collymore by The Mirror's Ed Malyon, but Collymore had no truck with it:
Collymore divided opinion, here's a sample of that:
Aguero went on to play, and may now miss the Manchester derby for shoving his elbow into the face of Winston Reid. One man was unafraid to call it:
Calling it early. Aguero to miss Manchester Derby after the elbow.#CallCollymore
— Stan Collymore ❤️🖤 (@StanCollymore) August 28, 2016
