Football Daily | Formidables v Expendables? PSG v Arsenal could be a classic

LES GRANDES ÉQUIPES Here we are in the dog days of May, with the European club football season playing out a slow, sultry finale as the Geopolitics World Cup bangs ever louder on the door. Legendary managers and beloved players have made tearful farewells , shiny pots handed out , spies spotted in slapstick circumstances. But wait! The big closing number is still to come. Paris Saint-Germain. The Arsenal. Budapest. Saturday, er, 5pm BST. It’s Bigger Cup Final! PSG, the defending champions, find themselves in a similar scenario to last year. Having swashbuckled their way through the choppier side of the draw, Luis Enrique’s lads face a team famed for their tenacity and titanium defence. Last year it was Inter who tried to stand up to PSG’s formidable attacking unit, and were dismantled so comprehensively that manager Simone Inzaghi was working in Saudi Arabia five days later. That’s a day for each goal Inter conceded, with PSG racking up the most one-sided result in Big Cup Final history, finally launching a particularly persistent monkey off their collective backs. Speaking of former specialists in failure, Arsenal have signed off from their banter era in style. Having won their first league title for 22 years – a moment marked by a glorious impromptu party outside the Emirates – their first Big/Bigger Cup final since 2006 feels almost like an afterthought, a shiny sixpence discovered moments after winning the lottery. …