This week sees the second leg of the semi-finals of European competition, which is also the subject of Wednesday’s piece on this site. Looking at the history of the game which decides the finalists, there have been plenty of exciting and invigorating matches and Manchester City have added their name to the rollcall.

They are called the Mackems because ‘we mack ‘em and you tack ‘em’ was a famous phrase when Sunderland was a shipbuilding city. Today, the football team can be found in the third tier of English football and on Netflix too.

Imagine if after 38 games of the Premier League season there was a sort of play-off between the top six and the bottom six and after five more games we would find out if Norwich really did get relegated or whether the chasing pack could catch Liverpool and Manchester City.