“Back to back” read the message projected on to Budapest’s elegantly historic main train station, Keleti palyaudvar. It was in English, though perhaps it should have been in French, with the faces of Ousmane Dembele and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia beneath the words. It is Paris Saint-Germain who have gone back to back.
With a couple of different penalties, it could have been Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice’s images there. Instead, after Arsenal’s Champions League final defeat, their faces were seen only in the bowels of the Puskas Arena.
