St James' Park has been transformed. The Champions League logos have been splashed across the stadium for the first time in a couple of years. Champions League openers do not come much bigger than Barcelona at home and there is a lot of history attached to this fixture, whether it is Tino Asprilla scoring a hat-trick against the Catalan giants in 1997 or Sir Bobby Robson managing both clubs.
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