The Simeone snub was a thing of true beauty.
The battle with Atletico Madrid always threatened to be an ugly affair. Diego Simeone is not a football man renowned for his manners, on or off the pitch, but in this particular case, the dark arts master clutched at a one-goal deficit heading into his squad’s second-leg group stage clash at Anfield.
Elite-level s***housery is what Simeone does and elite-level s***housery was what this second-leg was going to get.
