Seafood restaurant Gamba Glasgow has removed lobster from its menu after facing a 72.4% price hike in the past three weeks.
United will have to acclimatise to the shock to the senses that accompany Thursday's Club World Cup semi-final against Gamba Osaka.
One thing Gamba Osaka does have on its side is international experience.
To build their confidence, Gamba threw them into competitions more often, abandoning the past Russian practice of only showing up for large international events.
The renaissance is largely thanks to the 2008 hiring of Ezio Gamba, a onetime judo gold medalist for Italy, to coach the men's team.
Past and present Russian athletes credit Gamba with revitalizing their program.
According to Virginia Gamba of the Institute for Security Studies, based near Johannesburg, South Africa cannot wait that long, as it rushes to share basic policing skills with its neighbours.
It would be one of the greatest stories of winning against the odds, but, with the firm weight of a Japanese crowd cheering them on, Gamba Osaka have a real chance of making football history.
Gamba will also call on their Brazilian strikers Roni (who represented Brazil at a Confederations Cup) and Lucas (who played in his nation's Olympic team) to add some experience and try to create pressure on goal.
One of those to be eliminated, Waitakere of New Zealand, are only part-time while another, Adelaide United, earned their right at a (very long) shot at the title by losing the Asian Champions League final 5-0 on aggregate to Gamba.
At the Gamba protected-area complex, on the coast of Gabon, patrolling rangers make daily logs of deposits of flotsam from the industrial world that has arrived on their remote Atlantic beaches at the same time as they record the comings and goings of the local leatherback turtles.
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