The death of the star is the final act. It detaches from its outer layers, compresses into a white dwarf, cools, almost becomes invisible, tries to get fuel as the last breath of life and culminates the process with a cosmic explosion: a supernova.
At the Etihad in Manchester, the Real Madrid of Luka Modric, Karim Benzema and Toni Kroos, said goodbye to the Champions League in an explosion rarely seen in its recent history. There was no miracle, because miracles are miracles because they only happen once (or one season), and he fell defeated before the great monster of petrodollars from the East.