The Fiver | Entertaining the nation through acts of self-defeating macho grandstanding

In today’s Fiver: Mr Roy, a happy Moses, unhappy Spurs, and a load of bull

As everyone will agree, the player of the 2015-16 Premier League season was, obviously, and by some distance, John Terry. His unwavering commitment to entertaining the nation through acts of self-defeating macho grandstanding lasted to the bitter end: yet another big end-of-season party missed, and a narrative arc so perfect it could be mistaken for a Dimitri Payet free-kick. Yet incredibly, the only people who still want him in their team these days are middle-aged Chelsea fans who wish it was 2005 again, when the sun shone every day and José made everything all right and kissed it better. We could all be talking about 中国足球协会超级联赛’s Brave John Terry before you know it, and only then will everyone realise what we’ve lost.

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