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BORIS STARLING

SPORT CAN AMPLIFY AND ACCENTUATE emotions like little else. Hope and despair, agony and ecstasy, triumph and disaster, the best and worst of times: how the pendulum can swing — and how it can take us with it when it does. But the switch from one to the other has rarely been as dramatic as it was on a warm Barcelona night 25 years ago this May.

Eighty-nine minutes gone in the : Manchester United 1-0 down to Bayern Munich. The last leg of an unprecedented treble, and all match it’s looked

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