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In today’s Fiver: Big Cup, gin, and Basingstoke Town’s eBay denials

Nothing much happens on Big Cup matchday six. That’s hardly a surprise, given you could have guessed the identity of at least 15 of the 16 teams to qualify for the knockout stage before the draw for the groups was even made. And that last guess was only held back because, since they managed to get themselves relegated to the Second Division from a position of mid-table safety with five games to go back in 1909, nobody has ever made any assumption about Manchester City. It’s just not done.

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