Opinion, by Robbie Blakeley
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The scene was the immediate aftermath of the Campeonato Paulista final, the São Paulo state championship, in which Corinthians had just defeated Santos to lift the trophy. The reaction of the press was telling.
As Santos starlet Neymar left the field and was customarily surrounded by a throng of reporters, not one question asked for a reaction to the loss or an analysis of his own, apathetic by his own standards, performance.
Every single question fired at the 21-year-old was to do with a supposed transfer to Catalan club . . .
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