John Oliver

We all know what he did.

We all know what he did.

Yeah, but that was what I was worried about.

Without that game, I was worried that we were hurtling to the opposite of that.

We were hurtling towards an ugly ending that was in no way representative of everything that he's done for that club and for his hair.

And him not starting the game obviously made it worse, right?

It made it much worse because I think he felt like he had been snubbed, that it was not his work, what he had done.

His contribution, follicly and with football.

was not being respected.

I don't know that he was entirely wrong about that to me.

He wasn't playing particularly well, but I think they did.

It was not wrong to infer a level of disrespect from it.

So yeah, I was desperate for that situation to be handled and diffused because the idea of it ending that way would have hurt, I think, lastingly.

He is a singular figure and it feels like

Generally, statues should not be built for footballers, not just because they can be embarrassingly bad like that one Ronaldo won.

But because footballers are over-praised in so many ways.

But what Mo has done transcends football.

How he carries himself as a human being transcends football.

And I just didn't want it to end badly.

And I hope it doesn't now.