La Liga keeps on giving. And taking away. And then giving back again | Sid Lowe
10-May-2021 14:23:08 | The Guardian
It was billed as the weekend that would decide everything. But the finish line still seems further away than ever
Diego Simeone wasn’t watching the moment his fate fell back into his hands. After 35 exhausting weeks, every second of every game clawing at the nerves, the tension had become too much even for him. On Saturday afternoon, Atlético Madrid drew 0-0 at the Camp Nou; on Sunday night, Real Madrid faced Sevilla at Valdebebas, gifted the chance to go top for the first time in seven months, finally releasing Atlético’s grip on first place five months later, but he wasn’t going to tune in to see the title decided. When the drama unfolded, his destiny defined, he was having dinner. Or so he claimed.
“I haven’t been watching the other games; I have a bad time of it,” Atlético’s manager said before departing Catalonia bound for home, his team no longer in control of the tightest three-point title race there has ever been. “Nothing will change if I watch it. I’ll have dinner with my family instead. I prefer not to watch.” When the moment came, at 10.30pm the following night, others felt the same way, his Barcelona counterpart Ronald Koeman admitting that he turned over, but for the rest it was impossible to look away as the latest absurdly unlikely chapter played out, everyone watching a man watching a small screen.
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