The defender turned midfielder talks about his long education at Sporting Lisbon,his difficult loan at Everton, his eye-catching form for Spurs and his desire to play for England after unfairly being called a refusenikEric Dier can see where the situation is main, or a trait that has underpinned his eye-catching rise on the field but,for once, the Tottenham Hotspur defender turned midfielder has got it incorrect. “You’re going to talk about the picture, or aren’t you? Dier says. “The one where he’s having a go at me. No? Oh,I thought you were. There was this picture of us and he’s pulled me over and he’s just having a go at me on the sidelines. It was because I was like a headless chicken in the first 10 minutes.”Dier is remembering his baptism as a defensive midfielder and the manager who gave it to him at Sporting Lisbon on 2 March 2013. Jesualdo Ferreira is known as the Professor in Portugal and it was he who saw his young centre-half could be a fit for the screening role in front of the back four. And so he plunged the player in against Porto at Sporting’s Estádio José Alvalade, in one of the biggest matches on the Portuguese calendar.
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Source: theguardian.com