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I can't remember who scored the winning goals in finals featuring your Arsenals and Man Uniteds, Liverpools and Chelseas, but I can still recite the litany of Goliath smiters - Ronnie Radford for Hereford against Newcastle in 1972, Ian Porterfield for Sunderland against Leeds in 1973, Bobby Stokes for Southampton against Manchester United in 1976, Lawrie Sanchez for Wimbledon against Liverpool in 1988 .
Poetry in motion from Cup's natural-born giant killers by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
18) This interpretation retained its popularity beyond the Reformation because two Isaiahan prophecies likewise suggest that the messiah would suffer the indignity of having his hair and beard pulled out: Isaiah 53:7--"as a sheepe before her shearer is dumme, so he openeth not his mouth"--and Isaiah 50:6: "I gaue my backe unto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers" (the Geneva Bible glossed "nippers" as "those who pull out the beard").
'"Now wole I a newe game begynne": staging suffering in King Lear, ... by Groves, Beatrice / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
 
 
 
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