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 |  Cricket  | Apr 04, 2026
Will phallus

Edgbaston 2008, and the innings Graeme Smith was born to play

4. Two fingers

Arsenal won the title at a canter in 1990-91 even though - or more likely because - they were deducted two points after a Royal Rumble in Manchester

2. Wild nutter

Arsenal’s young team were top of the league and full of the joys when they arrived at Old Trafford in 1987. One man soon changed that

There goes the fear

The genesis of England’s glorious 2005 Ashes victory was a 47-minute cameo three years earlier

To the death

At Italia 90, Diego Maradona picked a fight with the entire world – and came this close to winning it

Let's push things forward

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

A vile technicality

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

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