Marcus Rashford continues to ignore the rule that football and politics make uneasy bedfellows. Whenever players voice concerns about the deteriorating state of the nation, people living in social media echo chambers scream back that they should stick to what they know...
A fledgling Old Trafford career was borne from an act of benevolence, with the Red Devils allowing him to join a year early to ease the pressure on his struggling single-parent family.Breakfast consisted of whatever came out of a vending machine while he and his sister helped their mother clean toilets in London hotels that were a world far removed from their own.
Since March, the 22-year-old has raised over £20 million to aid food distribution charity FareShare UK cope with the increased demands caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Even the smallest acts of kindness go a long way in trying times. Last weekend, Henderson's Liverpool teammate Mohamed Salah chose to pick up the tab for an entire petrol forecourt.Yet the government has turned the game into a literal political football by hailing and hijacking its status in equal measure to mask its own failings in an ongoing tactic of lies and deflection.
Working-class kids like Rashford, Sterling and Henderson did not reach their current standing on talent alone, or by subscribing to the Tory mantra of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.All three are now established England internationals and more attuned with the plight of the average fan than the well-heeled politicians trying to score cheap points by tarnishing them.
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