The World Cup continues, and with it Zlatan Ibrahimović’s role as a pundit for Fox Sports also continues. Controversy is certainly not lacking, such as that raised by English colleagues at the Daily Mail who report, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport, on increasingly less concealed tensions between the three main pundits: Zlatan Ibrahimović, Thierry Henry and Alexi Lalas. In particular, it is Ibrahimović and Lalas who constantly clash, so often that it is hard to tell whether their mutual irritation is real or just a script to boost audience numbers.
As per the Daily Mail, the hostility between the three has become unmissable television and, at times, even more entertaining than the matches themselves. Zlatan and Alexi absolutely do not get along. Zlatan drives him mad and Alexi cannot stand him, but he remains professional and does his job... The tension will not ease anytime soon. At the same time, everyone has started to exploit this friction because, like it or not, it is very entertaining for television.
It's fair to say Zlatan has finally had enough of Alexi Lalas. pic.twitter.com/bfcQtxwec3
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