Friday, 2 June 2017

The Fiver | The Old Lady’s old man

Today: Big Cup, Lionel Messi’s theme park and Oxford City

For all its many fascinating subplots, Saturday’s Big Cup final is really all about one man. OK, two men. Three at a push or possibly four, five or six men … not including the two men tasked with actually picking the two teams of 11 men in which these aforementioned seven, eight or nine – OK, let’s make it a round 10 – men will feature. But as far as The Fiver is concerned, it is really about one man: Gianluigi Buffon. The man they call Gigi. Or to put it more simply, just … the man.

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