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Matty Longstaff (now playing for Toronto FC)


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Proudly pig ignorant of other cultures. Another tick on the PFM checklist.

 

100% he is.

There's an old Guardian story about him looking completely dumbfounded when someone asked him if Elmo was observing Ramadan.

 

Soon after Ahmed Elmohamady arrived from Egypt, Sunderland's manager was asked if the winger would be observing Ramadan and if so, how the daylight fasting might affect his game.

 

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The question was met with a blank look. "Is Elmohamady a Coptic Christian rather than a Muslim then?" the questioner persisted. It was an important distinction and the answer should have tripped off Bruce's tongue, but he clearly did not have a clue.

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  • 3 months later...

Must have fallen out with Bruce big time to have been kept away from the first team for so long. He looked really composed on the ball. He's never going to be the most mobile but at least he doesn't look like he's smoking 40 fags a day like Shelvey.

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There was a moment in the second half when he was surrounded and he turned around but he had no pass on,  instead of booting it down the field like Shelvey would have, he held on to it a little longer, shifted it between his feet and bought his team mates time to move.

 

It's those little moments which tell you which players can make it. If you have the balls to keep the ball under pressure against one of the best sides in the world that's a great place to start.

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