Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final will not be the first time Reading’s Chris Gunter and his best friend Aaron Ramsey, of Arsenal, have lined up in opposition. They may speak with each other constantly, they may room together on international duty with Wales, but they have very little recent experience of what it is like to try to beat each other. Though the last time they did so, the conditions were marginally warmer than they will be at Wembley. “It was on a beach in Antigua,” says Gunter. “I was best man at his wedding last summer and we picked sides for a match, my lot against his. It all got a bit messy and in the end it didn’t get finished. But...
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