Marseille fans have a dubious new hero – Mason Greenwood

For a supposed persona non grata, this was quite the salutation. Mason Greenwood, the winger engulfed by such ugly turmoil in England that he has had to rebuild his career overseas, was given the most guttural of Marseille welcomes on this sultry Mediterranean night. In the most vivid illustration that football will airbrush anything if the price is right, the 22-year-old strode out for his home debut here not to a chorus of catcalls but to a wall of grateful noise from fans who enveloped him in