The Spain Under-21 centre-back on his club?s ?crazy? defensive numbers, his dual identity and his love of multicultural London
?Jesus Christ! All I want to do is get you in a straight bloody line. What do I have to do?? Gerald asks. So Horse says: ?It?s the Arsenal offside trap, isn?t it?? Lomper here becomes Tony Adams, and Cristhian Mosquera starts to laugh.
The Spain Under-21 international is sitting at a table in the team hotel in Lugo, Galicia. Through the window, the sound of rain falling; in front of him, the famous scene from The Full Monty, cinematic representation of a defence so perfect, so instantly identifiable it became part of popular culture; a backline never to be bettered. Until now?
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