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A MINOR AILMENT, LIKE CATCHING THE FLU Just thinking about tonight’s Big Cup round of 16 disappointing first-leg 0-0 draw in the San Siro where someone gets sent off and there’s some wiffle about a disputed penalty shirt-pull-type incident is enough to make the Fiver’s head spin and the uncorked tube of nasally ingested No More Nails fall from its quivering tea-time-email hands. On the face of it this may look like no more than a match-up between one team with a tradition of famously cagey defence and one from Italy. But it’s also a game with more interminable subplots than an episode of Spooks written by Ronnie Corbett sitting in his “joke chair” and saying “Annnywaaaayyy …” First, and perhaps least, it’s a chance for Chelsea’s Brave John Terry to come bowling back to centre stage frantically restyling himself as grizzled and brave and appealingly humble. “I’m on a mission and nothing is going to distract me,” CBJT gargled in this morning’s Sun, pausing only to check his emails, sta
