Dest: best player in the Barcelona side today? (Liked Messi and Alba for an hour).

All sorts of wrong

There’s an idea that this year has been a really, uniquely exciting Champions League, which vindicates (and is because of the format). Let’s accept that for a minute (although it’s debatable) but, erm, did no one watch last year’s?

And so the destruction is complete.

Top story on Barcelona's website: Coutinho joins preseason training.

The “no one cares” (but I cared enough to tweet that) tweeters... strange people

Brilliant. Valencia fans hire a Mariachi band to follow directors and let their complaints be known. #ProtestSong 

David Squires on … the booing of footballers taking a knee | Football | The Guardian

For no particular reason except that I like the photo (a recent version of many similar ones). There’s something sort of magical about going up a stadium stairs and that moment the pitch first comes into view, all bright and green and almost overwhelming.