Jermain Defoe - more a wee shuffle towards the exit door of a spectacular career. But the Rangers striker, who has signed on for another year in a new player-coach capacity at Ibrox, admits he and his team-mates owe a debt of gratitude to the Michael Jordan documentary which had the sporting world talking during lockdown last year.
Defoe has finally ended a 21-year wait to lift a league title and he insists watching The Last Dance – the Netflix docuseries based on Jordan’s incredible basketball career and the final year of the Chicago Bulls dynasty – fed his own hunger to be crowned a champion before it was too late.That, of course, is exactly what transpired over the next 12 months.
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