There used to be wry smiles whenever Marcus Rashford was likened to Kylian Mbappe. There might not be many of those at this moment in time.
It is a common theme in modern football that players are compared with their rivals, with an almost constant battle for supremacy, as social media acts as the battleground for debates that have no objective answer and don't need one.
What makes it even more frivolous with regard to Rashford and Mbappe is that they see themselves as friends rather than foes and are both admirers of each other.
