For the boyhood Arsenal fan, the dream draw would be a fourth-round tie against the Gunners and an unlikely reunion with one of his footballing idols.

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Ranged across the bottom are hundreds of small, monkish figures in robes and bearing gifts: a lotus here, a fan there, a sceptre, a letter, beads, scrolls or round pots of incense.

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