The tragedy of Paul Pogba

He has the talent and he has the skill . However he also has a hamartia.

(Hamartia,wikipedia will tell you, is a literary term that refers to a tragic flaw or error that leads to a character’s downfall. The term originated with Aristotle as a way to describe an error or frailty that brings about misfortune for a tragic hero.)

Poor old Pogba’s hamartia is his I’m better than everybody else attitude which led to the disaster at Man Utd. After that his hamartia has taken him to further depths in Juventus.

He is currently plumbing those depths after a positive test for a negative substance sees him facing a possible 4 year ban from the beautiful game.

The only small consolation he has is that he is in the company of illustrious names like Maradona and Guardiola – who also landed up testing postive for banned substances and had to face the music.

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