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His match-winning penalty yesterday was excellent, a true midfielder's side-footed stroke off the post and in. The type of stuff Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Ramos...well, nevermind.

But his method of extracting the most magic from his chance at glory boils down to something which took Tom Hanks several months on a deserted island to succumb to: talking to a toy made by underpaid children in Southeast Asia.