Given previous form, perhaps it should be no surprise that Eric Cantona has again prompted bafflement with a philosophical monologue loosely based on football. The player-turned-actor elicited furrowed brows from the audience at the Champions League draw with a brief but wide-ranging speech that alluded to science, immortality and war. Channelling
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Celtic battle back to beat Sarajevo in Champions League qualifier
Celtic came from behind to beat Sarajevo in the first leg of their Champions League first qualifying round tie after the Scottish champions were stunned when Mirko Oremus opened the scoring following a corner. How Neymar’s PSG dream soured to leave a split looking certain | Darren Tulett However, Neil Lennon’s
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‘Wow’ factor puts Trent Alexander-Arnold centre stage for Liverpool
Twenty years old, on the same pitch as Lionel Messi, and it is your “genius moment” that Jürgen Klopp and the football world salute, after it drives your boyhood club into the Champions League final for a second year running. No wonder Trent Alexander-Arnold absorbed every moment of Liverpool’s extraordinary
Tottenham superheroes achieved near miracle at Ajax, says Pochettino
Lucas Moura: from São Paulo prodigy and PSG outcast to Tottenham hero | David Hytner
Miracles, plot twists and last-day drama to come – what a week of football | Eni Aluko
This week, football has improvised the perfect movie script, full of fight, heart, desire, determination, tears of anguish, tears of joy, unsung heroes taking centre stage and the impossible becoming possible. This movie is a true story that ended with two English teams reaching the Champions League final, proving that