Without wanting to get too meta, for this is surely not a preamble about writing a preamble, it’s impossible to pick out the key element of this match in a hilarious, stylish and intensely poignant manner without alighting upon the sheer awfulness of what we’re about to enjoy. How can we focus on the football, when even the football isn’t focused on the football?
This might well be a good game – two huge teams running into decent form – but we cannot and must not be consumed by that, because that is what they want us to be. Let’s be better than them.
Real Madrid C.F. ????
