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Rice serenaded with Ice Ice Baby

- By SAMI MOKBEL

arsEnaL celebrated Declan rice’s last-gasp winner over Luton with a dressing-room rendition of… Ice Ice Baby! rice scored with virtually the last touch of the game, in the seventh minute of stoppage time, on tuesday night to secure a vital three points for Mikel arteta’s men and extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to five points at the time. Mail Sport can reveal the team kicked off the festivitie­s in the away changing room by blasting Vanilla ice’s famous track Ice Ice Baby, with the players singing along to the lyrics in the aftermath of the 4-3 win. the song has become rice’s unofficial anthem in recent years. He famously imitated the 1990 hit on A League Of Their Own. rice also has a commercial deal with Muller Yoghurt; with the slogan a lead feature of their amusing advertisin­g campaign. the manner of the victory, in which arsenal were forced to come back from 3-2 down, sparked frenzied celebratio­ns from the Gunners camp. the victory arrived as a welcome relief amid the club’s mounting injury troubles, with news that takehiro tomiyasu will miss at least four weeks with a calf injury. the Japan star limped off during arsenal’s win over Wolves on saturday and has undergone a series of tests this week. the asia Cup begins on January 12 and it remains to be seen whether he plays for arsenal before then.

 ?? REX ?? Party time: Rice enjoys his last-gasp winner
REX Party time: Rice enjoys his last-gasp winner

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