In the city that hosts Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, Tottenham produced their own surrealist masterpiece to convey a horrific occasion. The shock was not that they lost 5-2 to Atletico Madrid – indeed, there was a relative respectability to the scoreline, given what it could have been – but the manner of it, the four goals gifted to Diego Simeone’s side in absurd fashion, the sight of a traumatised goalkeeper being substituted in the 17th minute.
It is sadly safe to say Antonin Kinsky’s memories of Madrid will not revolve around the Plaza Mayor. And yet, awful as his evening was, his manager came out of it still worse.
