“Totally unfair” Diego Simeone called it, but it’s over now.
When the Football Association handed Kieran Trippier a 10-week ban for breaking its betting regulations, Atlético Madrid’s manager asked why it should be his club that paid and how the institution passing judgment could be the same one “benefiting” from it, claims of injustice crystallising around the timing: the England defender would miss 12 Atlético games, including their first Champions League meeting with English opponents Chelsea, and conveniently return just in time for the next international break.
In fact, Trippier returns just in time for something bigger. Available again having not played since January, on Sunday afternoon he will …