eye-opening

If you were a decent person, you go home and you’re scolding yourself, but it’s been an eye-opening, weird experience.

Learning about their humanity and the ways they wrestled with making their way in this world can be as eye-opening as it is enriching to their legacy.

"It was a really eye-opening thing because I had never seen Memphis and I had my vision of it," he says.

“It was eye-opening because it taught me that the game was cool, and it wasn’t the game that I was upset at. It was the context surrounding the game.”

"Senegal were better, they deserved the win and England go into the summer off the back of an eye-opening defeat," former Everton playmaker Leon Osman told the BBC's Football Daily podcast.