The PSG forward is regarded as a specialist in simulation but the news that he has suffered another foot injury should concern all true football fans
The story of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' rarely provokes any sympathy among its readers. If anything, his grisly end is usually deemed just punishment for such incessant deception.
As a player long accused of feigning injury to win fouls, Neymar would be a most fitting protagonist for any footballing version of Aesop’s fable.
Indeed, he lay prone on the pitch for a staggering 14 minutes of Brazil’s 2014 World Cup campaign yet remarkably emerged unscathed.