In sports, one fan’s hero is another fan’s object of derision and contempt. Successful players on a rival team may illicit begrudging admiration, at best, but there are few things more difficult tostomach than the open floodgates of adulation for world class players who have channeled all their talents into a team you decry. I’m thinking in particular of Franck Ribéryand Arjen Robben, both of whom rounded off their storied league careers at the weekend with Bayern Munich by coming on as subs to score in front of an adoring home crowd. Bayernhammered Eintracht Frankfurt 5-1 to lift their seventh successive Bundesliga shield.
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