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Man City v Luton in 1983, Liverpool v Arsenal in 1989, Hereford v Brighton in 1997, Sheffield United v Wigan in 2007, Brentford v Doncaster in 2013. For the past week or so, I’ve been racking my brains trying to think of all the do-or-die, winner-takes-all, final day encounters between two direct rivals that have occurred in my lifetime. And they virtually all follow a particular theme.
In each of the above examples, the away team has prevailed, getting the result they needed at the expense of the home team. In each instance, the pressure of carrying such a heavy weight of expectation proved too much for the hosts. And what’s more, the pressure invariably took its toll late on. In the first half, almost nothing happened.