The composure that the big 6» 4 Cameroonian displays has a settling
influence on teammates: which is why Lovren plays better when
alongside the
man who signed in the summer on a free.
His life in Newark, New Jersey in 1951 is one defined by obedience and repression, with Marcus working
alongside his father in a kosher butcherie, counting the days until he escapes the
influence of his increasingly paranoid and overbearing father, a
man deeply wounded by watching the sons of friends and acquaintances buried by their grieving parents.