by Olly Ricketts @https://twitter.com/@OllyRicketts Published 12 min ago We are part of The Trust Project What is it? Arsenal 7-3 Newcastle, Dec 2012 The oft-repeated cliché about unusually high scores around Christmas is that defenders are still half asleep having over-indulged during the previous days. Yet this match was full of fantastic finishing and some memorable attacking play that would have troubled the sharpest of defences. At half-time the score was just 1-1, with a deflected Demba Ba free-kick cancelling out Theo Walcott’s distinctly Thierry Henry-like opener. The second half was, frankly, bonkers. Twice more Arsenal took the lead, only to be pegged back both times by an...
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