Absolutely nobody who knows Álvaro Arbeloa will have been shocked at his angry outburst against one of his own players at the weekend. But just about everybody else in the world would have been, so vituperative and unrestrained was the way he slammed his Real Madrid academy centre half Joan Martínez . But back to that in a moment.

First of all, you remember Arbeloa ... don't you? He was that rangy, pipe cleaner-thin defender for Liverpool and Real Madrid who literally won everything. He played his part in two European Championship wins and the World Cup victory with Spain , and amassed various trophies with those clubs, too, including the Champions League with Madrid, defeats in two Champions League semifinals and a final for Rafa Benitez's Reds.

The trouble with Arbeloa, i

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