Jude Bellingham navigated his player-of-the-match press conference with all the aplomb that he had just shown in 86 minutes on the pitch. “Up the Villa,” joked one of the press corps with allegiances to that half of the second city, and the former Birmingham City player laughed and retorted: "No more media for you!"
Footballer press conferences can be awkward monosyllabic affairs, but in Bellingham breezed and charmed, engaged and pushed back when necessary but generally sprinkled his stardust on a new group of admiring foreign journalists from China to the USA.
