The opening 64 bars of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor

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CARLO AND CARLISLE

Carlisle United were a very decent side in the early to mid 1970s, but even then they couldn’t beat Liverpool. They lost 5-1 in the 1972-73 Milk Cup, 2-0 in the FA Cup a year later, and 1-0 and 2-0 in their only top-flight league campaign another year after that. Since then they’ve been beaten 3-0 twice by the Reds in the FA Cup, in 1977 and 1989. So if the Cumbrians, currently in the fourth tier, manage to knock Liverpool out of the Milk Cup tonight at Anfield, in that context it’d be one hell of a shock. In another context, though, it wouldn’t be, because Liverpool aren’t any good.

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