UEFA stopped doing trophy presentations in the stands in 2017.
Čeferin changed it. The pitch is the players' stage, and the men in blazers come down to them instead of the other way round, and nobody climbs 40 steps in front of a crowd any more.
So there are no steps at Lilleküla.
Rrrrrr.
They wheel a black podium out to the centre circle 4 minutes after the whistle, 8 men pushing it, with a strip of red carpet rolled out in front of it and a table for the medals and the Super Cup on a plinth at the top.
And it is on the grass.
Which means there is nowhere to stand.
Clank. Clank. Clank.
Hnnn.
Real Madrid went first, because the losing side always goes first, and that is the cruellest 4 minutes in European football and nobody has ever changed it.
10 men, because Sergio Ramos was sent off on 58 minutes and a sent off player does not come out for a medal.
