Karim Benzema: Real Madrid's Self-Sacrificing Superstar With Nothing to Prove

It's not often that a tweet from Gary Lineker threatens to escalate into a diplomatic incident. But when the affable Match of the Day host suggested in 2017, using his most cringeworthy Dad-on-Holiday Spanglish, that Real Madrid's French number nine Karim Benzema was 'nada especial', Los Blancos saw red. 'For football people to say this is embarrassing,' withered Benzema's manager Zinedine Zidane, pointing out that any criticism of the striker's rather lean goal-to-game ratio obscured one... Via All the latest breaking football news, transfer rumours, analysis, and match reports - 90min http://www.90min.com/