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Saturday 15 May 2010
Leading article: Pompey and circumstance
One team is the billionaire owner-backed winner of the league which is looking forward to a new season competing with the glamorous and moneyed elite of European football.
The other team is a bankrupt shell of a club, which has passed through the hands of four dodgy owners in the past year, and is facing a future of, at best, second-tier league football and, at worst, oblivion. Has there ever been an FA Cup final quite like this?
To present Chelsea versus Portsmouth at Wembley today as a David versus Goliath contest makes the biblical struggle seem like a reasonably fair fight. But perhaps it is a testament to the marvellous unpredictability of football that, despite everything, the outcome of this game cannot be taken entirely for granted. Portsmouth has itself to blame for the financial situation in which it finds itself. But it is very hard not to feel sympathy for the club's fans. And if the end really is in sight, one would have to have a heart of stone to begrudge them one final, magnificent party at Wembley today.
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Dogma will always lead to murder. In the end, scepticism is the only answer
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Editorial: This grisly crime must not erode our freedoms
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The long recession has one silver lining; EU leaders are finally tackling 'tax shopping' head on
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Editor's Letter: Images of Woolwich suspects were used in public interest
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Editorial: Obama’s decisive break from the ‘war on terror’
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Errors and omissions: How a wrong translation became the great Berlin bake-off
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