As you’ll be aware, we were left sorely disappointed by the lack of Beatles content surrounding Liverpool’s defeat to Atlético Madrid this week.
Usually, the Spanish newspapers can’t resist shoehorning some sort of Beatles reference into their comments and headlines whenever Liverpool are involved, but this time they were strangely quiet on that front.
Instead, they were more focused on a famous victory for Atlético, preferring to praise the performance and, in some cases, laughing at Liverpool for their cockiness back when the two sides were drawn together.
Fortunately, the Beatles fix has been fulfilled by AS today, who have a column about the game from musician Pancho Varona which is predictably Beatles centric.
He explains how, two months ago, he realised that next month is the 50th anniversary of the Beatles splitting up and began to think of Liverpool vs Atlético Madrid and that event as one.
Naturally, he spent a day doing the customary Beatles tour and on the 11th travelled to Anfield for the game. And it’s fair to say he was impressed.
He was impressed by the famous stadium, explaining how ‘seeing that atmosphere is overwhelming for anyone’ and how he ‘shed a couple of tears’ watching ’50,000 English souls’ signing You’ll Never Walk Alone.
There the was the game itself, in which he seemed to spend most of his time praying to Jan Oblak, which, as anyone who watched his performance can testify, clearly worked.
Varona, for his part, was ‘sure’ Simeone’s tactic for Atlético to ‘hold their nerve’ and grow as the game went on would work so that in the end they could ‘have the last laugh’ and become those ‘who will never walk alone’.
And so it proved to be the case, with the Spanish side securing a famous victory and forming their own Fab Four, with John Lennon, Oblak as Paul McCartney, Marcos Llorente as Ringo Starr and Simeone as Ringo.
