OK, tin hat is on here, but I’m just going to play Devil’s Advocate here for a minute because, in general, this “footballers being tired” mularky gets on my paps as much as it does everyone else’s.
However, there may be an argument for saying that a lot of this is relative. For example, I’m not sure how far the Swansea and Fulham international players travelled and when they returned compared to Moses who travelled to deepest darkest Africa and, I believe, only arrived home very late on Friday night.
So, although £12-15k per week should enable you to be physically able to play the following afternoon, perhaps compared to his fellow squad members and members of the opposition, he may not have been as fit and prepared as he would normally be for a Premier league game. I accept, however, that the way he plays, it may be quite difficult to tell.
