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On the face of it, Tuesday's Champions League semifinal is a collision between two clubs who, across their European history, have usually despised each other and whose matches have consistently been explosive, and occasionally violent.
The story lurking only just underneath that surface is of two talented, ambitious Englishman. One who is being painted as a "Jonah," an "Albatross," and the other who is the darling of everybody's eyes because, in footballing terms, he's blessed with the Midas touch.
The two enemies, culturally and competitively doomed to misunderstand and envy one another, are of course Real Madrid and their first-leg hosts Bayern Munich.