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Expletive! This being a family newspaper, the words running through our communal mind are not words I’m at liberty to publish here, and I suppose we can all express ourselves using the various alternatives our languages make available. But sometimes – OK, almost all the time – only four letters will do so, with intense feeling and emotion, expletive underworld.
But enough about Mike Baldwin’s knicker factory – now let’s talk football. When it comes to games like this, there’s a tension between hurling ourselves into the moment to make sure we live its every facet, and making sure we step back to savour its momentousness as part of history, each aspect as moving as the other.
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