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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Niall McVeigh

Liverpool, Real Madrid and likable doyens of the modern game

Not sure if that disguise in Paris is going to work.
Not sure if that disguise in Paris is going to work. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images

IT’S BIG CUP FINAL, BABY

After a season that has become more extraordinary with every passing week, it all comes down to this. Two teams fuelled by a sense of destiny, competing for a huge prize at a gleaming modern football cathedral; it’s just a shame somebody has to lose. And yet, when The Fiver submitted its 3,000-word opus on the League Two playoff final to The Man, it was sent back to us in a thousand pieces, the confetti arranged on what passes for a desk to spell two words: BIG CUP.

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