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Although hardly a formality, it seemed that the home team held all of the trump cards. Chelsea had travelled to Anfield two...
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After securing the domestic ‘Double’ in 1961, Tottenham Hotspur went into the following season’s European Cup competition with an ambition born of...
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On the eve of the 2007 Asian Cup, Iraq was a nation in disarray. A country that had been devastated by bombings...
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