When in 1883 Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, arrayed for a fancy-dress ball as Electric Light, topped off her satin and diamonds with a large incandescent bulb, it subtracted nothing from the elegance of the scheme.

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But just as Rovers seemed set to push for a winner, they were undone by Berger's through ball which enabled the electric Agbonlahor to burst forward and fire home.

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The Liverpool captain opened Pompey up on 37 minutes with an electric burst of pace before laying the perfect ball in to Emile Heskey's path but the England striker was unable to clip his shot over the advancing Hislop.

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With Pakistan's two pace spearheads in full flow there was an electric atmosphere, and Sami felt he had trapped Ganguly lbw, although umpire Doctrove correctly deemed that the ball had pitched outside leg-stump.

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