Unlikely to be as pleasant on the eye, but no less explosive, that particular showdown is scheduled for Saturday, with the fixture generator having unwittingly maximised excitement among Iceland's football followers by pitting the Premier League's two potential title winners against each other on the final day of the season.
PD In terms of romance, a third round tie pitting a League Two side against Championship strugglers might seem like the equivalent of a knee-trembler up against a bus shelter, but Saturday ought to mark a proud moment in the career of Neil Harris.
Guinea's minister of youth, Moustapha Naite, was dancing and screaming in the conference room when Guinea "won" the draw, pitting them against Ghana in the quarter-finals.
The fight is pitting a dry legal position against an emotional and politically potent one.
Starbucks, with 300 branches and 5,000 jobs said to be in the pipeline over the next five years, is also in the midst of a high street bun fight that is pitting US imports against flourishing domestic chains such as Greggs and Costa Coffee.
It seems a low-key approach to Saturday's most flavoursome tie, one pitting the GM Vauxhall Conference club against the 1987 FA Cup winners.
Last March, partially settling a historic, 15-year, multiple-lawsuit battle pitting Kansas schools against Congress, the state supreme court set a national precedent by ruling with Gannon v Kansas that the state inequitably funds public education – the "suitable provision" for which the state constitution has required since a 1960s amendment.
The volunteer diagnosticians are students, retired doctors, nurses and even laymen and women who enjoy pitting their wits against a good medical mystery.
As things stand, South Sudan may face a long civil war.What began as a political power struggle within the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the ruling party, soon took on a lethally ethnic character, pitting the country's two largest communities against each other: Mr Kiir's Dinka, the largest of South Sudan's tribes, versus Mr Machar's Nuer.
This is the case with a trial that opened on November 1st, pitting the world's two biggest makers of corporate software, Oracle and SAP, against each other.
