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the flying dutchman

Robin van Persie's goal sparked an epic online Photoshop battle

Oh, internet. Never change.

LAST NIGHT, THE Netherlands trounced Spain 5-1 in Brazil. But all the talk was of this incredible diving header by Robin van Persie:
https://vine.co/v/Mj3JwBXgKhW

It created what is likely to become one of the images of the tournament:

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Van Persie was swiftly named The Flying Dutchman. And the internet, needless to say, was not slow to react.

A giant Photoshop battle began.

It started simply enough:

But rapidly escalated:

This is our personal favourite:

Let’s just not talk about the landing, eh?

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More: Twitter went nuts at a random English model named Marcello after Brazil’s own goal>

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