At the height of the cold war, the Soviet Union developed a deep institutional suspicion towards denim jeans. Jeans and jean-related items were seen as an emblem of western-style decadence, a symbol for the younger generation of intoxicatingly subversive belief in modernism, artistic freedom and comfortable riveted trousers.
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All of which is a roundabout way of getting on to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, an authentically talented English footballer whose mid-career doldrums – 24 and there’s so much more – get a bit more absorbing every week. There is a chance Oxlade-Chamberlain might start his first league game for Liverpool on Saturday at home to Huddersfield. Only a small chance, though, given the surplus of roughly similar midfielders in Jürgen Klopp’s squad and the availability of Georginio Wijnaldum after injury.
Plus, of course, there is something else, too, a quality that has followed Oxlade-Chamberlain from Arsenal, that unavoidable sense of category confusion about a
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Eight years into his senior career the Ox remains the Oxymoron, the most eagerly coveted English midfielder nobody seems to really want
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This is a creative, attacking footballer good enough to score a sensational goal against Brazil at the Maracanã, thorough enough to study opponents and other players at home to improve his own tactical fluidity, who still contributed just one Premier League assist between March 2014 and October 2016. A player who seems in outline to be comprised solely of strengths not weaknesses, but who still hasn’t ever quite been able to fit as an inside-forward, wing-back, central playmaker, whatever.
Oxlade-Chamberlain was fast-tracked by Fabio Capello and coveted by Sir Alex Ferguson. He was wanted this summer by Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. He is a genuinely likable man, a team player and model pro, his public
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There is a theory about the disjunct between the appearance of Oxlade-Chamberlain and the effect off Oxlade-Chamberlain. The theory goes that he is in effect an elite athlete playing football rather than a “pure” footballer with nothing else in his veins. Oxlade-Chamberlain was a fine junior rugby player and an age-group cricketer good enough to still hold Hampshire district batting records. His old coach reckons he could have made it as a wicketkeeper-batsman,
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This is a seriously gifted human being. But at this level he’s a very convincing busker, an all-purpose man-athlete lacking in nothing but the one thing you really need to be in that elite band, the feeling of oozing football from every clogged and greasy pore.
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