Sid Lowe

It changes in focus.

I think it changes in tone.

And I think it changes in the sense of whether or not you're on his side.

So to give you the best example of this, as I've just said, he goes to the European Championships as a 16-year-old.

And he is the kid that everybody loves.

He turned 17 just before the final, and he is Spain's boy.

He is the one that everybody wants to celebrate, everyone wants to support, everyone gets excited about, and everyone says, could well be that in the next three, four, five years, the best player in the world is Spanish.

He's one of ours.

And I think that brings with it a huge amount of responsibility.

It brings with it a huge amount of pressure.

An example of this is I went to the first game that Spain played after the European Championships in Murcia.

The Luminia Miles shirts outnumber the other shirts by absolutely miles.

And this is still at the beginning of his career.

And so he's got this pressure of being the one that everybody loves, that everyone's looking up to, and everyone is putting pressure on to perform.

But then something else happens.

Of course, he goes back and starts playing club football.

Now, what does that do?

As you know, Dan, the way the divide is in Spain, it splits a little bit, that sense of everyone being on his side.

And now, of course, you've got a big chunk of the country

kind of deciding they're going to dislike him, deciding there are certain things about what he does that irritate them, deciding that this is now back on the agenda.