IN the snarling, competitive world of the modern game, very rarely do football folk all want the very same thing.
This is the one such time, because even the hardest hearted are praying Dele Alli’s painful confessional is the day his life began to turn in a much happier direction.
There would be no greater sight than seeing him in the Premier League again one day.
A smile on his face, doing the thing he loves, yet so nearly had turned his back on.
Of course, it will be a long, hard road and, who knows, he may never get there. But you’ll struggle to find anyone not in his corner.