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On 16 September 1987, Diego Maradona’s Napoli travelled to La Quinta del Buitre’s Real Madrid to play a first round, first leg match of the European Cup. Madrid won 2-0 with the return at the San Paolo drawn 1-1, meaning elimination for I Partenopei, gone from the competition almost before they arrived.

Silvio Berlusconi was not impressed, unhappy to lose one of the favourites were so early and also unwilling to risk similar happening to AC Milan, the club he owned. So he propagated the idea of a European super league and, though it never came to fruition, a spooked Uefa caved anyway and, five years later, the Champions League came into being.

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