Here’s a thought: would we admire, or revere, Premier League stars the way we do if they were paid half a million pounds a year instead of a million pounds a month?
The transfer this week from Tottenham to Bayern Munich of the England captain Harry Kane was a melodrama dressed up as a psychodrama. Would he or wouldn’t he? Could he bear to walk away from White Hart Lane? Would the Germans pull the plug? And would the Spurs chairman Daniel Levy let him go?