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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
John Brewin

Antony and grim-faced Football Men providing real entertainment

PUTTING AN OLD SPIN ON THINGS

Big Vase is a most missable feast. After a week of Super Sunday, the Real Monday Night Football (Keys & Gray version, natch) and two nights of Big Cup VAR controversy, The Fiver sloped off for a Thursday night down the Salt Tears Arms, allowing its new-fangled smartphone’s alerts to take the strain. Arsenal lost at PSV. Mildly interesting. Manchester United beat FC Sheriff 3-0. Ho hum. How might the self-styled world’s foremost content delivery machine seize the social media disgrace agenda from that one? And go, as they say, viral. The answer lay not in Cristiano Ronaldo scoring, but instead Antony boarding the showboat in a manner Darcey Bussell would have been proud of before she hung up her slippers.

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