A barrage of garbage spilled out of the mouth of one of football's greatest figures.
The insults tumbled from a slippery slope of an acerbic tongue.
Legendary Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was like a poisonous snake vomiting a high volume of venom.
Juve defender Medhi Benatia pushed Lucas Vazquez from the back in the penalty box before clearing the ball by swinging his left foot from the side.
Referee Michael Oliver's finger pointed to the spot.
Juve saw red, led by a raging Buffon.
Oliver gave Buffon red.
Still seething after the match, the 2006 World Cup winner let off more outlandish criticism of English whistleman Oliver.
"It was a 10th of a penalty," Buffon told Mediaset Premium in quotes carried by the Football Italia website. I know the referee saw what he saw, but it was certainly a dubious incident."Clearly you cannot have a heart in your chest, but a garbage bin. On top of that, if you don't have the character to walk on a pitch like this in a stadium like this, you can sit in the stands with your wife, your kids, drinking your Sprite and eating crisps.
"You cannot ruin the dreams of a team. I could have told the referee anything at that moment, but he had to understand the degree of the disaster he was creating. If you can't handle the pressure and have the courage to make a decision, then you should just sit in the stands and eat your crisps."
It was all a reaction to what had earlier transpired between the four white lines on the green grass - Juventus's marvellous three-goal Champions League second-leg comeback against reigning champions Real Madrid. The comeback was huge.It reversed the 3-0 defeat the Old Lady suffered in Turin in the first leg.
Buffon's idiosyncratic response to an incident brought a realisation that in the years of Champions League football, his dream just went up in smoke.
The Italian stallion, who was probably playing in his last Champions League match, lost to Real in the final last season.
Buffon, who made his bow for Fidanzata d'Italia in 2001, bowed to Barcelona in the final of the 2014-15 season. Gigi, who was left morose when Juve lost to Milan in the final of the 2002-3 season, was gutted beyond his sensible senses. It has been pain upon pain piling in a dustbin of pain.
Oh the irony of it all.
Back at the Olympiastadion in Berlin in 2006, it was Buffon who watched Zinedine Zidane take a walk of shame to the tunnel after getting his marching orders for that infamous headbutt on Marco Materazzi.
Zizou had fired France ahead in the seventh minute via a cheeky penalty past Buffon before Materazzi headed in a 19th minute equaliser from an Andrea Pirlo corner. Italy then won on penalties.
On Wednesday, it was Zidane, in his guise as mentor of Real Madrid, who bore witness to Buffon suffering a similar fate. Two phenomenal stars, World Cup winners, super heroes if you like, for whom curtains went down on their glorious careers at the sight of a red card.
Now that the dust has settled, Buffon will accept that his tongue was a tad acerbic. He will see that his actions were not an image he would like the world to remember him by, given his sterling professional service to the game.
The incident is an ugly pimple on the face of a glorious 18-year career that never ended in European Champions League glory. He impugned his dignity on the altar of emotion. On Tuesday, Roma pulled an Italian job on Madrid's sworn enemies Barca.
Sport, the Barcelona-based newspaper which has allegiance to the Catalan club, could not stomach seeing Real go through. It described scenes of Buffon's buffoonery as the "Robbery of the century".
As far as a dramatic football week goes, this past one was right up there in the top drawer, barrage of garbage and all.
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