HANDLE WITH CARE
A pint of foaming shaft belonging to the hardest bloke in the pub. The wrong child from nursery. Somebody’s else’s suitcase at the airport carousel. Who among us hasn’t picked something up by mistake and been forced to rue our error? However, few have done so as publicly as Tyrone Mings, who in front of 23,466 largely delighted attendees at the Jan Breydel Stadion, made the critical error of picking up the ball after a short goal kick had been prodded his way by Villa goalkeeper Emi Martínez during Aston Villa’s Bigger Cup match against Club Brugge. While Football Daily can only guess what was going through the skipper’s mind as he leaned over, picked up the ball and placed it on the edge of the six-yard box, we have a fair idea what his manager was thinking when the ref proceeded to award the home side a penalty for handball. Unai Emery’s expression ran the gamut from bafflement, through withering contempt and finally settled on pure thunder.
