It was hard to know who came out worse from Tottenham’s 17 minutes of madness at the Metropolitano. Was it Antonin Kinsky, the goalkeeper who handed Atletico Madrid the tie on a plate, attempting to muddle on through the chaos like a Buster Keaton character as the entire city collapsed around him? Or was it Igor Tudor, the merciless manager who threw Kinsky into the fire on his Champions League debut, only to pull him out again after the move backfired so spectacularly?
Kinsky will never leave this baggage behind. Every interview he ever does, every profile of the man, will use this nadir as the reference point for whatever follows now, whether it be his banishment from elite football or his courageous rise back to the top of the game.
