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Or Colin Montgomerie, who was officially cleared of dropped-ball allegations in 2005 but who gave his prize money to the Asian tsunami fund anyway: "The respect of my peers and the rules of the game are extremely important to me," he explained, in words that Thierry Henry and, let's be candid about this, every other professional footballer in the world, will never be able to say.

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