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It began half a century ago on the windswept terraces of Middle Park stadium, on the southern edge of the world, where the coastal breeze would carry the wafting scent of souvlaki: a life in football that eventually would take Ange Postecoglou back to the continent he left as a child. What looms on Thursday, in a stadium encircled by a German forest, may well be the biggest game of that life. Win in Frankfurt, pull off the result of the season, and Tottenham Hotspur can still aspire to the trophy that may earn Postecoglou a third season. Lose, and the defining job of his coaching career is doomed to end in failure.
The stakes are immense. It took Postecoglou 30 years of hard, patient
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