Thought For The Week: 

Kevin de Bruyne on the value of multiple perspectives:

"I ask myself why so many European footballers seem better educated than their British counterparts. Perhaps the difference is languages", he says. “There are a lot of people from different countries who speak two or three languages, whereas English players usually only speak English. I come from a country where by 13 you are studying Dutch, French and English.” 

With languages, perhaps comes wisdom and humility – an ability to put yourself in the shoes of others, a knowledge that your way is not the only way. He smiles. "The Belgian way was never going to be the only way," he says.