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The Sky Sports advert for the 1997-98 season is a masterpiece of absurd pomposity. The actor Sean Bean, the concept of keeping it real in human form, strides relentlessly towards the camera while giving a breathy speech about the meaning of football. “It’s ecstasy, anguish, joy and despair,” Henry Anderson Authentic Jersey he says. “It’s theatre, art, war and love … It’s http://www.officialpenguinsauthentic.com/Ian_Cole_Jersey our religion: we do not apologise for it, we do not deny it … They’re our team, our family, our life.”

The pay-off is plea of authenticity. “Football. We know how you feel about it. Because we feel the same.”

With the exception of the original Alive and Kicking advert, it’s probably the most memorable Sky football promo. It did its job superbly – yet it was trumped towards the end of the season by an unscripted, unofficial advert for football. There was no speech, no pulsing music, no Sean Bean – just an Arsenal fan going feral with happiness.

He wasn’t celebrating any old victory. Twenty years ago on Wednesday, Arsenal won 1-0 away to Manchester United through a late goal from Marc Overmars. It was the first time they had even scored at Old Trafford in the Premier League era, never mind won there, and it gave them tentative control of the title race. Arsenal moved six points behind United with three games in hand. More than that, the slick authority of their performance against a nervous, injury-hit United made everyone connected with the club think something magical was happening.

At the final whistle, as Arsenal celebrated around Overmars, the camera cut to a thin man with curly black hair, stubble and a black leather jacket. He was wild-eyed, clenching both http://www.officialsanjosesharks.com/Adidas-Marc-Edouard-Vlasic-Jersey fists and growling “YES!”. Barry Ferst is a laid-back, softly spoken man, but sport is one of the few areas of life in Laurent Duvernay-Tardif Womens Jersey which happiness is demonstrated through aggression. It brings out the Danny http://www.denverbroncosshops.com/Cj_Anderson_Jersey_Cheap Dyer in most of us.

Ferst was in a car on the way back to London when a friend called and told him he’d been on TV. “I’ve got naturally curly hair and I’m quite distinctive, so I just thought I was easy to spot in the crowd,” he says. “I had two or three more phonecalls but didn’t think much of it.”

By the time Match of the Day came on that night, he was at home with his girlfriend, sharing http://www.officialauthenticbroncostore.com/Nike-Paxton-Lynch-Jerse... a bottle of wine and reliving Arsenal’s win. “When they showed the Overmars goal and there was nothing,” he says, “part of me was a bit disappointed.”

He didn’t know the Peja Stojakovic Jersey clip was at the end of the match rather than after the goal. His 15 seconds of fame were soon repeated. “My girlfriend said: ‘Oh my god!’ Even I was a bit like: ‘Jesus Christ!’ But I wasn’t really surprised by how intense I looked. The things I’m passionate about, I’m very passionate about. I was caught in the moment.”

Life was different in 1998. Although some people had mobile phones, communication was slower and more relaxed, with no culture of text messaging. The internet was a curiosity rather than a societal addiction. It took a while before Ferst realised his life had changed.

“I thought a few people would say something and that would be it,” he says. “It’s not like I’d scored a goal or been dropkicked by Eric Cantona. It started to dawn on me the next day, when I was getting recognised in local shops, that things weren’t normal. I used to work at Barclays Bank in Hammersmith and Tyson Alualu Womens Jersey I went in as usual on the Monday. There were a few cracks about it at work. On the way back to the station that night, a three-minute walk took me about 20 minutes.”

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