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On the surface, Wednesday night’s Big Cup big kick-off has all the hallmarks of a classic minnows-made-good
Disney sports film – a team of plucky unheralded small-town misfits trying to win the Big One against all the odds. For Atalanta, read the Bad News Bears, the Mighty Ducks, the, um, Fernfield Timberwolves (You know? From Air Bud? The heartwarming tale of the basketballing golden retriever? Tag line: “He sits, he stays, he shoots, he scores”? No? Your loss). There’s also the perfect antagonist – voracious, dastardly, moustache-twirling moneybags PSG, who have chomped their way through Ligue 1 yet again and now have their sights set on Big Cup, the bauble they really want, the one that has always eluded them, the one they’ll stop at nothing to claim at last.