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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Scott Murray

Manchester City and Pep Guardiola navigate the business end of Big Cup

They don’t look nervous.
They don’t look nervous. Photograph: Alan Martin/Action Plus/Shutterstock

BEWARE THE ASIDES OF MARCH

Big Cup football returns to our television screens tonight, and unlike last weekend’s Match of the Days, we’re absolutely certain the normal, full-fat, bangs-and-whistles version of The Manchester City & Leipzig Show will go ahead without being compromised by the absurd grandstanding and sinister manoeuvres of piss-poor populist politicians. That’s because the match is going out on BT Sport, which unlike the BBC nobody pays the blindest bit of attention to, and presented by Jake Humphrey, who unlike Gary Lineker … and this is where the comedy of repetition is our friend.

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