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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Getting the Peter Drury Easter bingo card ready for Manchester City v Arsenal

Pep Guardiola, the Premier League trophy and Mikel Arteta.
Will Mikel Arteta’s Gunners lower City’s colours? Photograph: Action Images/Reuters

SUPER EASTER SUNDAY

With Arsenal primed to take on Manchester City at the Etihad in a potential title decider, the stage is certainly set for a certain Brazilian to hijack the occasion. As the clock ticks down to kick-off on Sunday, you can be sure commentators tasked with covering the game will have spent long evenings working diligently on their painstakingly scripted “ad-libs”, fervently hoping Arsenal’s No 9 will score the winning goal. Ideally, a strike that finishes a most unlikely comeback for his team. Suffice to say that Football Daily has got its Peter Drury bingo card ready and phrases such as “divine intervention”, “back from the dead” and the rather snappy “Arsenal looked doomed on their Etihad Calvary but Jesus has resurrected their title hopes on this Easter Sunday!” all feature.

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