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Pride and anticipation in the Arctic Circle

by Layth Yousif in Bodo, Norway
THE air was cold but the anticipation sizzled.
People clad in bright yellow queued around the block, long but patient lines snaking around the compact ground.
They had come to see their unfashionable, unfavoured but much-loved minnows, host the mighty Arsenal from London.
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