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Fri, 10 Aug, 2012 - 01:00
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Larry Ryan

David O’Leary, meet Almonte Martinez, the lady who has taken your record for sucking the breath from a nation.

If Davo took an age to step up to that penalty in Genoa, the referee from the Dominican Republic stood in the centre of a ring in London’s docklands and held the hands of two tenacious women for an eternity.

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