Police in riot gear responded with "blast ball" grenades that release smoke laced with pepper spray.

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Rooney outmuscled Ifil as the ball bounced back towards the Aberdeen goal but, with the goal at his mercy, the striker contrived to blast the ball wide of the near post when a shot across the bows of Howard seemed the better option.

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However, keeper Smith parried and McGinn pounced on the rebound to blast the ball into the back of the net.

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However, a long ball out of defence from Gary Caldwell caused havoc in the Shakhtar defence and, when Razvan Rat and Dmytro Chygrynsky collided, Jarosik pounced to blast the ball into far corner.

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Any nation willing to send the products of the best minds of a generation and a significant portion of its GNP hurling into space to blast a ball of ice three miles across will be treated very carefully by its neighbours.

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First Simon Davies earned a corner as he burst after a ball down the right channel, then Earnshaw slalomed in from the left to blast a shot off Per Mertesacker's shins.

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Ljubijankic broke free on the right only to blast wide while there was no-one to turn Kirm's dangerous ball across the goalmouth into the net just before the break.

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Sutton piled more misery on the home side with a strike four minutes from time after Sheridan worked the ball in from the edge of the penalty area and set up the former St Mirren man to blast home from close range.

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