Bliss it was to be there
The text was from a good friend in Dublin, as committed a football man as I know. It read simply: “Life is beautiful”.
Some wise man once called sport a magnificent triviality. There was certainly magnificence in Barcelona’s performance on Saturday night but there was nothing trivial in the sight of Eric Abidal, just 71 days after he’d had a liver tumour removed, being given the honour by his team mates of hoisting the biggest prize in European club football — a beautiful touch to complete a beautiful night of beautiful football.