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Peter Drury's sign off for Arsenal vs Southampton was the perfect summary for classic Premier League match

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Updated 09:57 22 Apr 2023 GMT+1Published 09:40 22 Apr 2023 GMT+1

Peter Drury's sign off for Arsenal vs Southampton was the perfect summary for classic Premier League match

Peter Drury's commentary for Arsenal's dramatic 3-3 draw with bottom club Southampton was pure poetry.

Josh Lawless

Josh Lawless

Peter Drury proved yet again he is the best commentator in the game with a poetic monologue to summarise Arsenal's shock 3-3 draw with bottom club Southampton.

The Premier League leaders dropped points for the third consecutive game to give Manchester City further hope that they can retain their title.

Unlike against West Ham and Liverpool though, it was the Gunners who had to come back from behind.

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Southampton punished early mistakes to go 2-0 up through Carlos Alcaraz and former Arsenal star Theo Walcott, before Gabriel Martinelli reduced the deficit.

But then Saints restored their two-goal cushion at the Emirates when Duje Caleta Car headed home from a corner.

Ruben Selles' side looked set to record an enormous victory in their fight for survival but Arsenal scored twice in quick succession late on to level through captain Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka.


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They then threw the kitchen sink at it in a staggering ten minutes of stoppage time played, though the Saints just about held on to claim a point.

Nobody expect Friday night's clash to produce such drama but Drury, working for Premier League productions, described it all in poetic fashion.

As soon as the final whistle sounded and Mikel Arteta and Arsenal players had their heads in their hands, Drury did what he does.

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He summarised: "The end, the end. Make sense of that. Where on earth are we now? A night of dismay.

"A night of hope lost and restored. A night of salvation. A night of despair and elation. A night of such raw emotion. And at the end of it all, curiously, we are where we started.

"A goal in the very first minute, so nearly a winning goal in the 100th minute. At times Arsenal seemed broken. At times the Saints seemed utterly alive and now they are both suspended amid disbelief."

Image: Alamy
Image: Alamy

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Just spine-tingling stuff from Drury, who is the Shakespeare of football commentary and never seems to miss.

All the big moments in football, whether it be Siphiwe Tshabalala's "goal for all of Africa" or Kostas Manolas completing a legendary Roma comeback, are made better by the way he articulates it.

Featured Image Credit: Premier League

Topics: Arsenal, Southampton

Josh Lawless
Josh Lawless

Josh is a sports journalist who specialises in football and WWE. He has been published by Curzon Ashton FC, Late Tackle, Manchester City FC, The Mirror, Read Man City and Manchester Evening News. He provides coverage of professional wrestling and has covered two WrestleMania events for SPORTbible.

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