The phrase ‘rent free’ is one of the more head-bangingly inane of modern football’s lexicon.
Yet how else can you describe Andrea Pirlo’s description of Park Ji-sung in his refreshingly blunt autobiography Penso Quindi Gioco (I Think Therefore I Play)?
“[Sir Alex] is a man without blemish, but he ruined that purity just for a moment when it came to me,” Pirlo wrote. “A fleeting shabbiness came over the legend that night. At Milan, he unleashed Park Ji-Sung to shadow me.
“[Park] rushed about at the speed of an electron. He’d fling himself at me, his hands all over my back, trying to intimidate me.
“He’d look at the ball and not know what it was for. They’d programmed him to stop me. His devotion to the task was almost touching. Even though he was a famous player, he consented to being used as a guard dog.”
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