Merci, Antoine Griezmann - appreciating a Champions League icon one last time

The Japanese have an expression. Mono no aware. It articulates the bittersweet awareness of impermanence. To see the pink flowers of the cherry blossom is also to know they will soon fall and be gone.  It is to be struck by beauty and then feel bereft. Upon coming to the Emirates for Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final second leg, Atleti fans must have felt pangs of that. Five games of the season remained. Less than three weeks to catch a glimpse of arguably their greatest ever player, Antoine Griezmann, the Sakura striker, before he leaves for Orlando City in MLS. Time so often taken...