David Arango was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Martinez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
David Arango was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The phone has started ringing about Luis Moreno again, and this time the name on the line is Al-Taawoun. Estudiantes de Caracas are listening politely and promising nothing.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Estudiantes de Caracas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Marked 7.94 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Estudiantes de Caracas had the best player on the pitch.