Gareth Bale leads Real Madrid blitz over Basel
There is always a temptation in football to look at what you could have won. In these days of frenzied movement between clubs, careers have a whiff of the choose-your-own-adventure with the pot of gold and the pit of dragons lying just a judicious turn of the page from one another.
It is never that simple. But when he looks along the touchline at Basels St Jakob-Park on Wednesday night, the home sides manager Paulo Sousa will be reminded that, sometimes, the wrong choice might not prove calamitous. That is despite the fact that he will see his Liverpool counterpart Brendan Rodgers, the man who picked up the pieces at Swansea City in July 2010 when the Portuguese, having led an improving side to seventh in the Championship, decided that Leicester City and his friend Milan Mandaric were a better bet to shoot for the stars.
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