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63d
ARSENAL 0-0 SPORTING (agg 1-0) -
OLIVER HOLT AT THE EMIRATES: Outside the Clock End‚ where the
Sporting supporters were streaming into the ground in their green and white hoops and the smoke of their flares turned the air acrid‚ some of the greats of
Arsenal stared down on the scene from a giant mural.
Tony Adams was there‚ leading the troops into battle‚ his shoulder to a cannon.
David Rocastle was by his side.
Martin Keown looked wide-eyed with aggression.
Frank McLintock was there‚ too. It looked like one of those masterpieces of Soviet-era iconography‚ heroes of the proletariat coming to the aid of the motherland in its hour of need‚ square-jawed and upright‚ never doubting‚ never yielding.