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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Scott Murray

The end of a Liverpool Big Cup era, and history beckons for West Ham

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain gets a hug from Jürgen Klopp
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain gets a hug from Jürgen Klopp after ‘doing a Renato Sanches’. Photograph: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC/Getty Images

HOT AIR AND IRON WILL

According to the BBC’s occasionally staffed sport department – solidarity, sisters and brothers – Liverpool travelled to Spain this week for the completion of their annual humiliation at the hands of Real Madrid in a Boeing 737. But when Real Madrid made the opposite journey three weeks earlier, they did so in an Airbus A359. Short end is, Real generate twice the carbon footprint when tooling around Europe, so hats off to Liverpool for that at least. Hats also off to the sustainability reporters at the Beeb, whose task must feel positively Sisyphean given the significant amount of hot air and bullsh!t regularly released into the ether by its management classes.

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