Not helping matters: The Scottish Sunday Herald newspaper today published a picture of the soccer star on its entire front page, with only a thin black line covering the eyes.

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The thin blue line was black and blue that day.

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An elfin man with cropped black hair and a thin line of beard, he was dressed in the eccentrically antic manner of Raskolnikov.

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