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The Importance of Caring
I think what we're often looking for is, I was like an easy trope and an easy answer for it. When you see these players sort of coming off the field, they may be masking their emotions. The intense disappointment is something they might only share with those people within their inner circle. And because we don't see our own emotions necessarily mirrored back in them, we assume that they don't care enough. Anyone that's here in the World Cup cares deeply about it, whether you can see it or not. So the next time someone says that footballers don't care, let's remind them that 32 years on from that moment, it still hurts for Gary.