It lasted only a minute, however, Milosevic sending Yorke clear to clip over Lukic.Bergkamp had a late chance in a typically rousing Highbury finale, sidefooting just wide after a long run, but one sensed that Arsenal, their ageing legs failing them in this hectic phase of the season, had missed the moment.We will find out more about both teams this new year week, with Wright beginning a three-match suspension – “I don’t love the FA now,” said the T-shirt he revealed after scoring yesterday – and Villa going to Old Trafford on Wednesday.. England have been given an outside chance of winning this second Test match by the best bowling performance Darren Gough has turned in for his country since his splendid form in Australia two winters ago. Suddenly, on this third day, he found his rhythm and destroyed Zimbabwe’s middle order in 11 splendid overs

A fast bowler’s mechanism is a most intricate affair So many things have to come together at the right time. First, there is the rhythm of the run-up, which enables the bowler to use all the power and energy he has generated in his approach.
Gough sensibly did not try to bowl at his very fastest. It has been a desperately slow pitch and it was so important that he got the ball up to the bat to give it a chance to swing and to bring the batsman on to the front foot. Control was all-important.It was with measured stride that he went into his final delivery, which was beautifully smooth and was the logical end to his run-up. He was able to swing the ball both ways, an art he has sometimes seemed in recent months to have lost.

The late inswinger caused problems to the right-handers and he had the left-handed Andy Flower out leg before with one which moved the other way.The great hope now is that Gough can remember exactly what caused him suddenly to come into his best form so that he can continue it next month in New Zealand and, even more importantly, during the summer’s series against Australia. In this mood, he is a most valuable Test bowler.England start the fourth day 42 runs behind Zimbabwe and on this slow pitch it will take them some time to knock the deficit off. Although the ball was coming through a shade faster on to the bat on the third afternoon, it is still a pudding of a pitch.It is a difficult surface on which to score runs at any pace, because it allows so few strokes to be played safely and effectively. But after keeping Zimbabwe’s lead to reasonable proportions England might still win, provided that Nick Knight and Alec Stewart can bat through the first session this morning.Knight is the key player because he is such a fine striker of the ball and loves nothing more than to go for his strokes. Of course, it is a tall order to expect him to do so for a long period on this pitch but if he is still in at lunch today he will probably be well past 50, for that is the way he bats.He could, therefore, take England to a position which would enable them to declare early on the last morning and embarrass Zimbabwe in the last two-and-a-half sessions.

However, with all the time lost to the weather so far and with rain still about, a draw must be the most likely result.. as 1996 really 1966 turned upside down, as some wag suggested? There appeared to be a certain symmetry: Euro 96 was like the 1966 World Cup, except it was only European, and the trophy didn’t come home; Oasis were sort of Beatles-ish, but without the charm or output, and their US tour triumph was hampered by its lead singer bunking off to househunt in St John’s Wood. But under the grandiloquent claims lay the germ of a genuine upswing, which recalled the “I’m Backing Britain” mid-Sixties. In the autumn, Newsweek’s cover story about the re-swinging of London caused much excitement, mainly because we couldn’t have imagined it back in the doldrums of the early Nineties. Hey, we were flattered even if we had a typically humdrum Olympics.
Meanwhile, on the high street, a tooth-rattling acidity reigned. We were told that brown was the new black, but lime green may as well have been the new white. And combat trousers were the new jeans, with some clubs looking like the siege of Sarajevo.

Tommy Hilfiger’s dull, heavily branded clothes were launched here, with marketing kudos by association with black America.The Friends cult was manifested in the popular Rachel haircut, and the belly button remained the summer’s erogenous zone of choice. Meanwhile, transgressive sartorial acts such as cross-dressing, multiple tattoos and piercing lost their taboo power. What next – amputation?Apart from the gun massacres that bedevilled 1996, there were lesser zeitgeist- crimes that hit the country’s panic button. First, girl gangs hit the streets: perhaps girls were the new boys. Stalking also became prominent, and a few high-profile cases led to proposed changes in the law. Some stalkees were celebrities: Madonna was stalked by a Mr Robert Hoskins, prompting the inevitable gag “It’s good to stalk”; Princess Di injuncted a German man called Klaus Wagner and an over-zealous photographer called Martin Stenning, who brought the paparazzi into disrepute with his aggressive way of taking pictures Cossack-style from his motorbike.In the main, the snappers of the rich and famous had a marvellous time, for 1996 was year of the Micro Celebrity. Tara, Tamara, Tania and the gang grogged their way around the circuit and finally the public asked: ‘What is it they actually do?” Well, micro-celebrity turned out to be an occupation in itself; one leading to lucrative sponsorship, PR and journalism contracts.

We might scoff but, for the time being, the joke is on those who support new publications such as OK! and Here! which chronicle their every sneeze.Others found fame to be a poisoned chalice, and the trial-by-tabloid of rock couples Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence, and Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit, had its ugly side. And a spooky aspect of the celebrity cult came with the feeding frenzy for anything that had been touched by the late Jackie Onassis, in a New York auction back in summer. After 1996, who’d want to be famous? Mrs Michael Jackson and Madonna’s insta-celeb kid Lourdes may be having doubts, insofar as either of them can think.More young people than ever headed off on hippy long-haul hols, mainly to India and the Far East, only slightly deterred by tragedies such as the murder of British woman Jo Masheder by a Buddhist monk early in the year. Goa and Thailand’s Ko Samui island remained pre-eminent raver’s destinations, but there are signs that thrill-seekers are looking elsewhere. Jennifer Cox of Lonely Planet tips the island of Boracay off the Philippines for 1997 , which she says is “full of beautiful people, bitter Far Eastern correspondents and international drug runners: completely wild and sophisticated.”As 1996 was the year that made sport interesting once more, there has been rekindled interest in sporty travel. Cox says that the pinnacle of cool is snowboarding in the Nepal Himalaya.