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The Women’s FA Cup is being played, too. Suzanne Wrack runs the rule over the ties.
Arsenal v Brighton, Sunday 1pm
Charlton v Liverpool, Sunday 2.30pm
Chelsea v Tottenham, Monday 1.30pm
Birmingham v Manchester City, Monday 5pm
Peretz was inspired by the Germany goalkeeper as a boy – he had a giant photo of the 2014 World Cup-winner on his bedroom wall – but in Bavaria Neuer, who turned 40 last week, morphed into a mentor. “[It went] from admiring the players, to them becoming my friends and my teammates.
“I watched every single save [Neuer] made and then he was with me day by day and he became a friend,” Peretz says, recalling the emotions of their first encounter. “I was sweating all over, so nervous that I could not speak. I had goosebumps, everything.”
