Terrace Talk Man City: No pizza in the tunnel but this rivalry is the real deal

Two great sides heaving and puffing for all their worth could not be separated.

Sun, 10 Apr, 2022 - 20:30

Simon Curtis

It could have been Friedrich Nietzsche and not Diego Simeone, who was in charge of Atletico Madrid’s nihilist approach to football in Manchester in midweek. After playing a team that gathered a grand total of zero shots, zero goal attempts and zero corners, as well as zero points (an appropriate prize for their night’s work), City’s weekend legs were asked to match those of a Liverpool side who would surely be much more prepared to come out and give them a game.

Nietzsche was not just a man interested in the dark voids in life, but also passed many a merry hour in what he coyly named the quest for truth. In this world of Trumps, Johnsons and Peskovs, that pursuit appears to remain something of a challenge to some who walk amongst us. In football too, the week had been crammed with folk prepared to deny that Manchester City versus Liverpool now represents the best of us.