Stewart Fisher: Players going AWOL is nothing new, but Dedryck Boyata has let his team-mates down

ONLY Dedryck Boyata will know whether he could have taken to the field in Athens on Tuesday night. Attaching pictures of himself hooked up to some medical contraption or other, using the kind of terminology generally used in relation to the Death Star in Star Wars, the big Belgian defender clearly thought not. “Unfortunately,” he wrote, “I’m not yet 100% operational”. When he met the media in Greece, Brendan Rodgers put a different spin on things...