COLUMN. Toby stops. Why is it always the wrong people who suddenly stop to make time for their family? What is Jan Jambon waiting for? What’s up with Jo Brouns? | John Segers

Papa Toby stops. Papa Toby wants to be at Ayla’s first ballet class and not miss the parent meeting at Jace’s kindergarten. And so daddy Toby gives up the Red Devils, exactly four days after he said he would continue. “Toby is therefore in his thirties,” says columnist Jan Segers. “No one in his fifties like Gert Verheyen, who never missed his children far from home. Today’s thirty-somethings should miss their children. Toby has set a precedent. If Dries Mertens and Jan Vertonghen continue, they will be bad fathers from now on.”