If that's true, we should all be concerned. Imagine GP's gofer has a spreadsheet recording all the squad members' playing time, and he picks the squad based on who needs a bit more.....Ohhh.
Actually, you might be onto something.
Now that's where he went wrong. He should have come as a centre back, and then GP would have played him as left-back. Or centre mid. Or anywhere really.
Today, yes. I think it's because the old scrote is doing it from home.
He made this exalted list, which has a few gems in it.
https://beingoutsidecricket.com/2016/09/03/the-outside-cricketer-list/
It's definitely, inevitably, indubitably the Brighton way. Consider your options, discard both the easy way AND the hard way, and then do it the ****ing impossible way.