On successive nights in the Champions League, we were reminded this week of the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt when he became president of the United States in 1933: "Nothing to fear, but fear itself."
On Tuesday, Ajax went to the Bernabeu to knock Real Madrid out of the tournament that the Spanish giants had won the last three years.
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