Anyone with a more than a passing interest in sport, especially in football (but not specifically in Arsenal) should read Jason Cowley’s wonderful account of the final game of the 1988-89 season.

It’s all happening so fast, yet there’s also something curiously hallucinatory about what’s unfolding, as if time itself is being slowed.

Here he comes, Thomas, free, lost to the moment, as he would later describe it. He must know that the defenders are closing on him, must feel the hot rush and strain of their exertion. He has the ball and is moving towards the penalty spot.

An amazing example of the transformational power of sport.