LEEDS, England -- On a night when fans set a Liverpool shirt alight in protest at the club's involvement in plans for a European Super League, the persistence of a saxophonist outside Elland Road, who played Abba's "Money, Money, Money" throughout Leeds United's 1-1 draw against last season's Premier League champions, provided a mournful soundtrack to the existential crisis facing football as know it.
For 90 minutes, the lone musician played the same song as Liverpool -- one of the 12 breakaway clubs branded the "dirty dozen" by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin earlier in the day -- saw their Champions League qualification hopes dashed by Diego Llorente's 87th-minute header, which cancelled out Sadio Mane's first-half opener.