You know, that Four Four Two with Harry on the cover (I think it was the April/May edition) had an interview with Bendtner stuffed away within, hidden amidst the endless centrepage spreads of 'King Harry Kane'. I found it quite eye-opening, really. In it, he talked about how footballers are perhaps unfairly judged on things they do and views they hold that inflame the public at some particular time, but the prospect of those same footballers growing out of those views and those activities (a quite reasonable process of maturation that everyone goes through and understands in regular life) is at the same time discarded and ignored by the very same public that is initially outraged by their early antics.
Thinking about it, he did hit the tickle my balls with a feather, imo. By all accounts, Berahino's a changed man now: he's knuckled down, stopped fooling about, apparently works hard in training and in games (according to Pulis) in stark contrast to his general laziness prior to Pulis arriving at the Hawthorns, seems set on leaving Sterling's disruptive agent as soon as he can, and has himself talked about how unfair it is to judge him on a couple of wayward incidents when (according to him) far worse things go on behind the scenes and are never brought to light in football. And yet, all that a lot of people can remember (not just you, gale) is the drink-driving, nitrous oxide and bust-up with Morrison at half-time in some game.
