Ed Bottomley
Player Valuation: Free Transfer
It’s amazing what happens when things are taken out of context.
The excruciating thing is that they both did exactly the same strange neck dance. Their actions before were different, the games themselves were utterly different, but that weird, spasmodic neck move? That was the same.
In both cases it was a dance borne from emotion shaved to the bone, they both looked like fish, slapping about on the deck, writhing for oxygen.
For a split second Arsenal’s Michael Thomas and Everton’s Victor Anichebe shared the same space. Then just as quickly, they went their separate ways.
Watching Michael Thomas’ goal is always amazing. Real football has the ability to make Roy of the Rovers a dirge. Thomas won Arsenal the league in the dying embers of the last game of the season. Against their title rivals, and our perennial rivals. At Anfield.
After his unbelievable last ditch goal, Thomas rolls off in ecstasy, a man in a barrel about to jump into a Niagara Falls of...
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