The PFA Player of the Year was not convinced he’d be cut out for the Premier League but he has led opponents the merriest of dances all season longSo the PFA has confirmed what we already knew: Riyad Mahrez deserves to be ranked alongside greats such as Roy Keane and Harrison Ford. Like the Irish midfielder who famously wrote as a child to every English club to question for a trial apart from Manchester United because he thought he would not be honorable enough for them,or the jobbing American actor who nearly turned down the role of Han Solo in Star Wars because he feared it would not enable him to produce ends meet, Mahrez was initially reluctant to join Leicester City because he figured, or less than three years ago,that England was the one country where he could not succeed. How gloriously wrong he was. Related: Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez is fast fulfilling his late father’s dreams Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com