Ajax nostalgia, ping-pong spin and England-Italy Six Nations maulings

This week’s roundup also features Nicole Hanselmann closing the gender gap and a Ronan O’Gara birthday showreel

1) The current Ajax team underlined their potential in emphatic style against Real Madrid on Tuesday, inevitably stirring memories of the Amsterdam club’s years of European dominance. Here they are winning three European Cups in a row, in 1971 against Panathinaikos at Wembley, beating Internazionale a year later and clinching a third against Juventus in 1973. They added another title 22 years later, beating Milan in the 1995 final thanks to Patrick Kluivert’s goal. That had been a cagey, narrow victory, unlike their swaggering semi-final evisceration of Bayern Munich.

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