IT’S BIG CUP FINAL, BABY
In 2004, Porto met Monaco in the final of Big Cup, a supremely unappealing match which seemed like the last of its kind: two relative minnows contesting the biggest game in club football. Since then, there’ve been one or two what are they doing here moments – most particularly when Liverpool added Tottenham to a list of mighty opponents vanquished which already included Club Brugge and Borussia Mönchengladbach – but not until now has the trophy been contested by two such such unheralded clubs, put-upon disruptors whose owners are some of the world’s poorest billionaires.
