"Everybody is still waiting for Javier Pastore to present his pièces de résistance: a formidable assist from a pedestal, two slaloms of a perversely serpentine quality in search of the goal—to show, in other words, that the young man is not taking a wide seat, as an Argentinean version of Robert Pires, and that his name is not a literal sketch of a shepherd dog with the cows moseying around the marsh puddles."

Ancelotti in Paris: The Ascent of a Gourmand