By Paul Pogba infuriated fun haircut-hating dads everywhere by having quite a good World Cup. Now it turns out that his influence was as great off the field as it was on it, as his rousing pre-match speech to his French teammates ahead of last Sunday's final has surfaced on social media.
"Boys, I don't want to talk too much, we all know where we are, we all know what we want, we know how far we have come," Pogba told the team before the game.
"We know it in our hearts, in our eyes. I can see it boys, we are concentrated. We cannot forget. Maybe I am repeating myself.
"We are 90 minutes away from possibly making history. Ninety minutes. One match. One match.
"I don't know how many matches we have played in our careers but this is one match that changes everything. That changes all of history.
"There are two teams, there is one trophy. For them it is the same, they want it. We know we lost a final [at Euro 2016]. We know it. We feel it in our hearts. It's still in our heads. Today we are not going to let another team take what is ours.
"Tonight I want us to be in the memory of all the French people who are watching us. Their children, their children's children, and their children's children's children. I want us to go onto the pitch as warriors, as leaders."
It'd be very Any Given Sunday if Blaise Matuidi weren't wrestling with his shirt in the background. Meanwhile, it turns out Didier Deschamps' half-time chat was basically: close them down, pass the ball, give each other options and ping the ball to Kylian Mbappé.
It's a little deflating to realise that 30 years after Clairefontaine was built, the man who ended up being involved in France's two World Cup victories is a "WATCH THE RUNNERS" away from being your classic self-appointed five-a-side captain.
