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Clive Allen’s swish through the West Ham defence in 1984 was the kind of instinctive brilliance that belonged on the Copacabana, not a muddy Upton Park
At Italia 90, Diego Maradona picked a fight with the entire world – and came this close to winning it
The Arsenal-Man Utd rivalry intensified during a ferocious FA Cup tie in 1988
In December 2001, ten-man Arsenal ignored xenophobia, injustice and Europe’s deadliest snake to win at Anfield. It was the symbolic start of the Invincible era
The 1999 World Cup semi-final between Australia and South Africa was a white-ball Test match with a twist that even Hitchcock would have deemed too cruel
Shane Warne started his first Ashes tour as a relative unknown. By the end, England’s batsmen knew quite enough about him
