“In terms of tradition,” says Tony Wall, “it is David versus Goliath”.

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COME on, then, ye Red proletarians: “put down your (Bavarian) beer and collect your (duty-free) fags/there’s a row going on, down near…” well, nowhere near Slough, actually: but in any event, Munich must be banished from the mind as soon as we touch down today.

Mon Mome's 100-1 success in the John Smith's Grand National may have been a skinner for most bookmakers but there was at least one betting shop that felt the pinch.