And his replacement, Russian Andrei Arshavin, failed to close down Valencia as he got into the area late in the game to tee up England striker Danny Welbeck for the winner.

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My son -- I made him go to bed because it was such a late game, and the first thing he said when he got up in the morning was, did they win?

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His black Division champion hat set aside for a minute, his smile still fresh after he doused coach Tom Coughlin with a cold, on-field Gatorade jug bath, he said he'd like to "wake up the echoes" of the 2007 Giants team that got hot late and went on to a Super Bowl upset.

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That was until it got to be so much to handle that late in the evening that Saturday night, he lined up a personal jet to fly to Chicago and get the boys himself.

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