Why Son Heung-min is now a bigger Tottenham legend than Harry Kane, Gareth Bale and Luka Modric, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI
We spoke one morning in 2019. That was in the August, in London, so two months after the evening in Madrid when everything went wrong against Liverpool.
It had stuck with Son Heung-min, scratching away at his days and nights, and at one point in our chat he made a sound that can best be described as a growl.
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