Diego Simeone, the 43-year-old Atletico Madrid coach, who once likened his own playing style to “holding a knife between my teeth”, still looked like he could take to the pitch and upend the opposition with his biting tackles.
V Sundramoorthy would have liked each of his players to have stuck a picture of Malek Awab on their wall in the week building up to tonight’s tasty Malaysian Super League encounter against Selangor.
The LionsXII accident curse has struck once more. Central midfielder Zulfahmi Arifin was involved in a motorcycle accident on Monday evening, leaving him with two dislocated toes on his right foot.