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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

It’s time for European club football to get pretty, pretty good

The match ball gets ready for a booting in north London.
The match ball gets ready for a booting in north London. Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty Images

🎶 THE BIG CUP … 🎶

While Football Daily has no intention of spoiling the finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm for any devotees who haven’t watched it yet, we’re giving nothing of any significance away by revealing its title is No Lessons Learned. We only mention it because it seems pertinent as Arsenal take on Bayern Munich in Big Cup later, on the latest step of their first foray into the competition since being humiliated by the German champions in 2017. It is fair to say that, unlike the misanthropic Larry David, Arsenal have learned plenty in the interim, as their lofty Premier League status and place in the quarter-finals suggests. However, it is in Big Cup that the biggest club in England never to have won the biggest of European pots that the Gunners have suffered consistent, varying degrees of embarrassment and this season they have another chance to put things right.

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