JOHN LYONS reports on the Chilean team who have made an art-form of being runners-up

Universidad Católica´s San Carlos de Apoquindo home – with the Andes providing the backdrop

If there was a prize for the team with the most hard-luck stories in football over the last 18 months, then Chile’s Universidad Católica would surely win it – or, more likely, come second.
You see, they’ve become the nearly team, the gallant runners-up, the defeated semi-finalists, the penalty shoot-out losers, the almost winners. And the fed-up fans have had to be...