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Sid Lowe

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ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

Not so much...

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

Because, and this speaks to Stevie's point, not so much because Vinicius goes off and goes down the tunnel and is angry, but because rather than reinforcing the coach's authority in that position, nothing happened.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

And of course, what that does is it underlines where the balance of power lies.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

quite as clear-cut as just saying players or manager, because it never works quite as clear-cut as that.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

But some of the group dynamics and some of the, if you like, the idea of power and authority, what Stevie says is right, is essentially there's a culture where the managers know that they are at the disposal of the players more than the other way around.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

The number one is the number one and it will be the number one for the rest of the season.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

That goal will not be bettered.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

I'd love to think it would.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

I'd love to think we're going to get something equally crazy, but that goal will not be bettered.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

I don't think there's anything we're missing from there.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

I mean, I suppose you could.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

I'm surprised, Jan, that we've not picked up on Bolo Glimt getting another fantastic result and doing it against Atletico Madrid and maybe having the chance to play Real Madrid next as well.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

So that's really exciting too.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

I'm a bit like Stevie, actually.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

To start with, it didn't seem to me to make a lot of sense.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

I thought conceptually the idea of having a league table when you're not playing everyone, of it being structured like this, didn't completely convince me.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

There's elements of it that I'm still slightly doubtful about.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

But yesterday's final game was fantastic.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

And in that sense, I was won over by it.

ESPN FC
Madrid's Messy Madness

I think one thing I would say is I feel like we should possibly take a step back from allowing ourselves to believe that the whole format is great because the final day was great.