Back to Wembley on a sun-kissed May afternoon in 1971, two teams in vivid kits that ping off the screen ready to contest a cup final for the colour TV age.

With Arsenal crowned league champions on the Monday before the game, they are on the brink of the 20th century’s second double as they look to match the feats of Tottenham Hotspur ten years earlier.

Against them, a brand new Liverpool, reassembled after the horror of defeat to Watford in the sixth round in 1970, and ready to emerge as Shankly’s third great Anfield outfit. Who will prevail? Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler take up the story as Charlie George submits to an uncontrollable urge to have a lie down.

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