APPARENTLY Brazil have worked on ten choreographed dance routines to celebrate their World Cup goals.<br /><br />Well if Richarlison carries on like this, they’ll need to rehearse a few more before the end of the group stages, never mind the knockout ones.<br /><br />The man who can’t get a start at Spurs showed exactly why it is he, not Neymar, who is the golden boy of Brazil to so many with an opening-game double.<br /><br />When you consider Neymar, Vinicius junior – remember him, Liverpool fans? – and Raphinha could have finished with at least a couple apiece, you’ll get an indication of how the favourites were frankly in a league of their own.<br /><br />If the Jolly Green Giant, AKA Serbia’s colossal keeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic, hadn’t been in the form of his life, they would probably have reached double figures already.<br /><br />As it is, that brace from Richarlison will do very nicely for starters. The celebrations may have been a long way off a ten from Len, but they’ll have them off pat before long, believe me.<br /><br />To every Premier League fan, of course, it is Neymar who is the heart of this most famous of footballing nation’s team. The reality, though, is totally different.<br /><br />It is Richarlison’s attitude, Richarlison’s influence and - most of all – Richarlison’s finishing which make HIM the focal point of things.<br /><br />And it is that last point which showed his dream of beating Tottenham team-mate Harry Kane’s Golden Boot-winning haul of six from Russia 2018 may soon become a reality.<br /><br />What a contrast, incidentally, to the two opening fixtures for the two Spurs pals.<br /><br />Kane, for all England struck six in whipping Iran, drew a blank and ended up needing a scan that gave the whole country a scare.<br /><br />Richarlison gave a masterclass in both old school poaching and flying finishing for the cameras with his Serbia-stuffing pair as well.<br /><br />The first was cruel luck on Vanja because it came after the keeper had produced yet another magnificent full length block to deny Vini Jnr.<br /><br />But there was Richarlison, pouncing like a dog on a slice of dropped ham, to prod in the rebound and send this Lusail Stadium crowd into raptures.<br /><br />They had been waiting long enough. There were probably an increasing number wondering whether they would actually get to celebrate a goal from their heroes at all, so stubborn was the Serb defiance.<br /><br />But you know what they say about London buses and all that? Well clearly the same goals for Brazilian goals.<br /><br />Because before we knew it, the Samba stars had doubled their advantage, the points were signed and sealed, if not yet delivered, as the same man pounced again.<br /><br />And if his first was anything but the finest example of the beautiful game from the archetypal purveyors of it, then the second most definitely was.<br /><br />Again Vini Jnr was the provider, with a burst of speed down the left flank that has become his trademark just one game into Brazil’s competition.<br /><br />When he prodded the ball into the danger area, RIcharlison’s first touch sent it spinning into the air – and his second was a
