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To this day, Mo Salah can barely think about it, think about the mental pain and anguish, when he was helped from the pitch, a broken man just 30 minutes into the 2018 Champions League final.

Now, there is a visible wince as he recalls the moment, the smile which seems to be permanently on his face disappearing as a cloud falls across his eyes. "I remember when I went off, it was the worst moment in my career,” he says now, of that incident where he was subtly, but brutally accosted by Real Madrid ’s Sergio Ramos.

“It was the worst thing to happen for a player. I knew the result from the hospital. We couldn't lose that way. I was really down at that time. We had a good season and came to the Champions League final and then I went off.”

Ramos used all the dark arts in the defender’s armoury to put Salah out of the final, and the Liverpool forward has made clear he feels it was an intentional act. No wonder his first reaction when witnessing Madrid’s astonishing comeback against Manchester City in the semi final was to tweet: “We have a score to settle.”

He subsequently doubled down on those comments after receiving the FWA Footballer of the