Like huge team crests in a stadium tunnel, football’s confected controversies are hard to avoid | Max Rushden

Many of us struggle to not get sucked into the content machine, even if we simply say: ‘This doesn’t matter’

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ast week a video did the rounds of Diego Simeone getting annoyed with Ben White for walking over an enormous Atlético Madrid crest-doormat placed literally in the middle of the tunnel entrance which Ben White had to walk into to get to the room Atlético Madrid had themselves selected for Ben White to get changed in.

Then on Tuesday night, Diego Simeone walked over an enormous Arsenal crest-doormat situated in the middle of the tunnel at the Emirates Stadium to get to the room Arsenal had themselves selected for Diego Simeone and the rest of his Atlético Madrid side to get changed in.

“The ultimate revenge,” announced Marca. “Diego Simeone deliberately commits ‘disrespectful’ act in Arsenal tunnel days after bust-up,” was Football.London’s take before listing a full list of people who walked around the crest, or who might have stepped on the side of it, intentionally or not.