The story behind Denmark's striking football stars: could something like that happen with England players?
Sam Wallace Chief Football Writer
Denmark Football Team
The Football Association
Wales Football Team
5 September 2018 • 10:24pm
Denmark's amateur understudies: the big names were on strike over image rights Credit: Reuters
For the modern online football public, the Danish football association (DBU) has presented the ultimate "lol" football match: a national team cobbled together from lower league and futsal players in the midst of a players' strike to face international-standard opposition.
Denmark against Wales on Sunday feels like a subscription event conceived of by the kind of YouTube influencer no one older than 25 has heard of, and is proof again that the game itself, along with the old boys that still run it, can always go one better on the "lol" stakes. Denmark played their friendly against Slovakia in Trnava on Wednesday night – losing 3-0 – with a team of stand-ins and when Ryan Giggs's team come to the...