Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!As regular readers will be aware, Football Daily is normally in the business of peddling cheap and often unfunny yuks, and certainly didn’t get where it is today (specifically: unread and ignored in tens of thousands of spam folders) coming over all mawkish and maudlin. But occasionally, we stumble upon a heartwarming yarn we’re surprised we hadn’t already heard and feel compelled to share it with a wider audience. This tearjerker has its origins in Wednesday’s Bigger Vase opener between Red Star (AKA Crvena Zvezda) and Celtic, two fallen giants of European football, who pulled off the ignominious feat of losing their respective Bigger Cup playoffs to minnows so obscure even the most seasoned of football hipsters had barely heard of them. And so it came to pass that, with Pafos and Kairat Almaty currently lounging it up in the top tier of European competition, the storied champions of both Serbia and Scotland have been left to slum it, kicking off their campaigns with a match in Belgrade.Enjoyed Stewart McGuiness regaling a couple of pearls of wisdom from Bill Nicholson (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). Reminded me of Bill Shankly’s ‘if you’re not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we’ll discuss your options afterwards’” – Martin Fisher.Stewart quotes Bill Nicholson’s tenet about football, to ‘keep it simple but keep it quick’. That would also be a good tenet that Football Daily should adhere to” – Nigel Assam (and others).I was part of the travelling Chelsea crowd watching our up-and-coming stars-given-an-opportunity