The Latics keeper later saved from Mikael Silvestre and saw a Rooney strike flash just wide of his goal.

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Somewhere in these flashing mirrors, we mistake the flash-lit celebrity, the lightning-strike story, for confirmed reality.

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It was a flash point during the year-long miners' strike in 1984 in what became the "Battle of Orgreave".

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