First, a confession. May 27, 2025, the day before Chelsea versus Real Betis in the Conference League final. I'd heard a rumour that Mykhailo Mudryk was in town and, not only that, he was at an American steakhouse called Whiskey in the Jar in the city centre of Wroclaw, Poland.
He’d been neither seen nor heard for months due to his suspension from football for failing a drugs test and this busy restaurant was only a 10-minute walk away, so I swung by.