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It was a good week for Bayern Munich and Roma in Big Cup. In as much as they both played well, anyway, but this is what happens when you faff around half-asleep for most of the first leg. And so instead it’s going to be a repeat of the 1981 final between Real Madrid and Liverpool, which is good news for the Reds if you believe in omens. Something to do with a royal wedding, the nationalities of the four semi-finalists, and a pattern of previous winners when the year ends in eight. Oh we don’t know. Give it another week and someone will have come up with some convoluted gibberish involving the Pope, the president and a couple of characters from Coronation Street. He will be no match for that old Albert Tatlock voodoo.

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