Laser-focused Kieran Tierney fast becoming icon like Psycho

Tony CascarinoWednesday December 30 2020, 5.00pm, The Times

Iwas shivering in the cold as the Arsenal team stepped off their coach and walked past me to the changing rooms at the Amex Stadium on Tuesday. The players were wrapped up in several layers — all except one. Kieran Tierney was in a short-sleeved T-shirt, oblivious to the bitter weather.

To add to this image of a player with absolute focus, the Scotland international had an almost manic look of determination in his eyes. Then the game started — I was commentating for talkSPORT — and Tierney quickly made a crunching challenge on a Brighton & Hove Albion player. Stuart Pearce, another left back, came to mind and I thought: “Here is the Scottish Psycho”

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