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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Is Vinicius a victim of Real Madrid's paranoia?

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Have these video reports sent to your email inbox by clicking here. Vinicius Junior might be the footballer I have written most about in the past 12 months. His combination of sublime skill and a hair-trigger temper, and the tell-tale way he is covered by some parts of the media here in Spain, is hard to ignore.

On Friday he was sent off for the second time in his Madrid career. I believe everything about this incident reveals something about the snarl and the fury of one of my favourite footballers, and his club.



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0:00.0

This broadcast on the day known as Reyes here in Spain is brought to you by Thunderwords

0:09.0

and particularly the expression, keep this frequency clear.

0:14.0

If you're too young to understand any of that, go look, go find out.

0:18.0

If you've been following me, either on a league of television,

0:22.4

sometimes in the big interview on ESPN, NFC in my columns in particular,

0:27.5

you'll know that, yeah, I've got to be in my bonnet about Venetius.

0:31.3

Again, I adore him as a footballer.

0:34.4

I think he's absolutely electrifying, totally sensational in terms of the thrill.

0:42.3

The electricity brings to the viewer that he brings to his team.

0:47.3

He's a big time performer.

0:49.3

Get him to a final and predominantly he'll give you an assist or a goal. He's got in the region of 200

0:57.0

goals and assists for Real Madrid, age 24. But he's annoying to some people. He's explosive. He carries a chip on his shoulder.

1:14.4

Normally for my taste and my taste only. And I'm off hittering you here. I know that people's tastes vary. And I know that if you were to

1:20.6

judge only by the Spanish media or by social media, I'm in the minority. But 90% of the time,

1:31.3

I like Vinicius's snarl and his fury,

1:37.6

because he uses it to drive himself on to better performances, to going past opponents who kick him. He uses it as fuel, as in various ways. Ferguson did, Beckham did, Keene did.

1:47.0

I've seen some those three because they're a standout performance

1:50.0

of when I was a written journalist in England.

1:53.0

But it's what I grew up watching Willie Miller do for Aberdeen too.

1:57.0

The fury about everybody's against us.

2:00.0

We will show you I will stick this right down your throat.

2:04.6

I love that. I live and breathe it. I use it every day.

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