Champions League plots thicken with whiff of sulphur in the air

There is enough intrigue as well as quality in the Champions League semi-finals this week to have any football fan salivating, writes David Shonfield.

Granted, the lack of English Premier League interest, unless you count Martin Atkinson and his team in Turin this evening, there are plots and subplots galore.

Carlo Ancelotti returns to the city where the fans treated him like a country bumpkin. “A pig can’t manage” read one notorious banner, which Carlo characteristically described as “an unbearable insult to pigs”.