Bowing the knee to Angela Merkel would allow Greece to get access to the short-term finance that will allow it to pay its debts, but it will be political suicide for Syriza.
If any player can soothe the Demon heartache that came when No2 pick Christian Petracca suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first months of his career, you'd think it's the young man who followed him by one place in the national draft.
"There's definitely a sense of responsibility," says Claire Rafferty, England's left-back and a part-time financial analyst at Deutsche Bank, who can look back nine years and recall her parents digging deep to finance career-saving knee surgery.
The all-rounder hurt his knee playing for Chennai Super Kings and was unable to play in the Tests and one-day matches against West Indies.
Other basketball players followed suit and, today, we commonly see basketball shorts four inches [10cm] below the knee (or lower).
Enthusiastic Wii Sports usage has seen televisions destroyed by flying remotes and a variety of injuries, including fractured limbs, dislocated knee caps, torn knee ligaments and facial injuries.
There was no bending of the knee or dipping of the head – nothing that might suggest an unequal relationship between the two countries.
"My right knee was like a time bomb waiting to explode," he said, "and eventually it did".
