Faustino Asprilla: a hero or a villain for the Magpies? Photograph: Mark Thompson/Allsport/Getty Images
Football’s essence is its simplicity - 22 men, an inflated pig’s bladder, an inflated ego with a whistle - but, as Leslie Grantham would tell you, sometimes a strength can also be a weakness. People rush to form straightforward opinions, to eschew [...]