“Spanish football is left mourning the death of Deportivo La Coruna fan Jimmy Romero who had to be pulled from the Manzanares River close to Atletico Madrid’s Calderon stadium, where Atletico beat Deportivo 2-0 in a match that became a mere footnote to the violence that marred it. Eleven other people suffered injuries while there were reports that over 200 people were involved in an organised fight that took place about an hour before Sunday’s kick-off. Atletico coach Diego Simeone said the trouble was a social problem and his club president Enrique Cerezo would say it ‘had nothing to do with football’. A local politician Cristiano Cifuentes called it an ‘isolated event’ that the police, kept at 200-strong because it was seen as a low-risk game, could not have foreseen.” Outside of the Boot