BORIS STARLING

NOT ONLY A GAME

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 CHAMPIONS LEAGUEFINAL: Manchester United 1-0 down to Bayern Munich. The last leg of an unprecedented treble, and all match it’s looked a step too far. Missing their two best players, Roy Keane and Paul Scholes, the team has been off the pace, outfought and outplayed. All those pivotal moments of the season — winning the Premiership on the…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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