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“Base camp!” shrieked Peter Drury when Arsenal scored their second goal on Tuesday night, liquidising into hot semen shortly afterwards. But there was a time when commentary was about watching what happened and responding to it, not preparing for what you hoped might happen and imposing yourself upon it. This is an example of that. Oh – and it’s Higuita’s scorpion kick, by the way.

 

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