Each day, when the first rays of sun warm its ochre walls, the doline comes alive with the sounds of the red-green macaw, as formations of these exotically-plumaged parrots dive and wheel below the lip, periodically alighting en masse to bicker, preen and survey their domain.

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El Hadji-Diouf's petted lip, Majid Boughera's curious attempt to get the referee to re-pocket his red card, and the squaring up of messrs McCoist and Lennon in what looked like an invitation to meet behind the sheds after school, were moments of lunacy.

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