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On their return to the top table of European football, Aston Villa were gifted a goal by Young Boys in bizarre circumstances

The fear of returning to the top of your sport after a long absence is that the journey is more enjoyable than the destination.
Aston Villa have been absent from the top competition of European club football for so long that it can be measured not just in years (41) but also names (two) and formats (three).
Yet being drawn away at Young Boys looked a promising first fixture, and Villa found out that while football has moved on enormously since they won the European Cup, sometimes the defending is still stuck in 1982. Jacob Ramsey scored his club’s second goal in Switzerland, but that only tells you about 10 per cent of the story. Gather round, children, for a tale of a good old-fashioned comedy of errors.
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Many question the wisdom of the current orthodoxy of diddling the ball about in defence, especially when your team is a goal behind, especially when six of the opposition are in your box. “Clear it!” shouted the Wankdorf ultras, presumably in one of Switzerland’s four official languages of German, French, Italian or Romansh.
Defender Mohamed Camara left his Romansh phrasebook in the dressing room and chose self-immolation instead, opting for a risky backpass to his goalkeeper David von Ballmoos. It was delivered with a problematic lack of urgency, and Ollie Watkins was on the scene quickly to nick the ball off the keeper’s toes.
Watkins was tripped, upping the slapstick quotient, then Ramsey had the rare chance to take a shot with a xG of close to 1.0 with several seconds of grace to trap and place his finish.
“Calamitous defending at the back from Young Boys,” said Darren Fletcher on commentary for TNT Sports which would be true even if that were a descriptor of U-9s park football rather than an unusual name for a grown-up team. 
“Extremely poor,” said Ally McCoist, attempting to dress it up in the usual football speak you expect of a competition with such illustrious sponsors. No complaints from Villa, who at this rate will go on to demolish their next opponents in this suddenly non-intimidating competition: Bayern Munich.