Not for the first time, Jack Grealish summed it up rather neatly.
“You’re a disgrace,” he told John Stones, but not in Jose Mourinho-Anthony Taylor style. It was player recognising player, Stones being a disgrace because he was so unflappably majestic on the grandest of stages.
Not content with being the Barnsley Beckenbauer, Stones has now morphed into a hybrid of the Kaiser and Patrick Vieira. Jamie Carragher had other legends in mind when eulogising Stones for his performance in the FA Cup final triumph over Manchester United, comparing him to Lothar Matthaus and Matthias Summer.
