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YOU CAN’T BEAT THE REAL THING

NIGHT OF MAGIC IN GLASGOW
KEVIN HALLS CASTS AN EYE BACK AT REAL MADRID’S STUNNING DEMOLITION OF EINTRACHT FRANKFURT IN THE 1960 EUROPEAN CUP FINAL

Maestro: Alfredo di Stefano guides the ball into the corner of the net

Penalty: Puskas scores

SO, LIVERPOOL have now won the European Cup a magnificent six times. The Reds overcame Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid in a final that hardly could be called exciting, in fact it was at times tedious.
But, then again, many big matches are often cagey affairs, so Liverpool won’t be bothered at how slow and cumbersome the game was - all that m...

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