Liverpool code red: MARTIN SKRTEL GREW HAIR

Liverpool center back Martin Skrtel has returned to training after his injury, and HE CAME BACK WITH HAIR ON HIS HEAD.

WHAT’S HAPPENING? MARTIN SKRTEL HAS HAIR AGAIN? I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS.

On the one hand, Skrtel looks decent, like he’s a natural with hair. But on the other hand, HELP WHAT IS HAPPENING?

We agree, admins of @PaddyPower who usually try a little too hard to be funny, we agree.

There are some rare photos of a younger Skrtel with hair, while he was with Zenit, but those pictures are quite hard to find. Since he moved to Liverpool in 2008, he’s essentially embraced the bald. But what 24-year-old voluntarily goes bald? So, the assumption was that he was one of the unlucky folks that went bald much too early.

Unlike Wayne Rooney and Jurgen Klopp, he seemed to embrace it. Those two, of course, got hair transplants.

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Maybe Skrtel did too? That’s speculative. It just seems rather odd that all of a sudden hair has reappeared on his head after all this time.

I’m not sure how I feel about. I’m happy for the guy if it makes him happy, but, on the pitch, will it affect his aerodynamics? Will his hair offer more resistance to the wind? What if it completely shatters his equilibrium and sense of balance as his body has become accustomed to the bald? Will attackers still fear him now?

All hard questions, and we need straight answers.

(What you’re seeing is the product of a football team currently languishing in 9th place after two heart-breaking results. So, as such, we turn our attention to lighter subjects. Subjects that won’t remind us that Liverpool are out of the FA Cup, for all intents and purposes out of anything meaningful in the league. Subjects that make us forget that Liverpool’s round of 32 Europa League tie backs right into the League Cup final, making that tricky, too.)

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