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"He's come back and returned, rising from the ashes, the Jamaican phoenix."

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But the Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Trust, who paid around £2,500 for the plane and stadium banner, are not waiting around, with plans for a phoenix club already in the works.

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He is a hoary phoenix rising from the ashes of his own stench so often he resembles the s**t demon in “Dogma.”

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His previous record on both statistics was his very first series – the 2013-14 Ashes when the hair was shorter, complexion more fresh-faced and right arm bare of the phoenix tattoo that now epitomises his career.

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Other former employees also hold out for a phoenix rising from the ashes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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