The Fiver | Mourinho and the golden value of a top-quality retriever

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How did Liverpool turn around a three-goal deficit against Barcelona last season? That’s what Barça fans keep asking themselves every single day, as they wake up with a start, regular as clockwork, pyjamas soaked through, for their 3am scream. You’ll get no sensible answers out of them, as they sit there, shivering, in their puddle. Poor dears. But The Fiver would boil it down to a couple of things: Andrew Robertson clipping good-time charlie Lionel Messi upside the head, and the quick-thinking ballboy who efficiently gave Trent Alexander-Arnold the chance to make some fast calculations of his own. Either or.

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