The traders selling flags on Liverpool’s Paradise Street this week have been earning their money from the face of Luis Diaz, and the film playing on loop at a museum near the Albert Dock features the miracle of Istanbul. The early 1980s seem a distant memory now.
But in so many ways, the team who defeated Real Madrid 1-0 in Paris 41 years ago, in the same city where Saturday’s Champions League final takes place, delivered a miracle too. In the process, they helped build the kind of global fanbase that, to this day, Manchester City can only dream of.