JOSH MURPHY went to Oxford United's fancy dress Christmas party as his identical twin, Jacob, in a full Newcastle kit.
And when the brothers played together at Norwich, manager Chris Hughton asked them to wear different colour boots so he could tell them apart.
But everybody knows which one is which now after feeble Bolton were sunk by two-goal Murphy's law at Wembley.
Jacob's twinkling feet are lighting up the dance floor on Tyneside and Josh is king of the dreaming spires after his brilliant display restored Oxford to the Championship after a 25-year absence.
Still in his playing kit two-anda-half hours after the final whistle, clutching champagne and the League One play-off trophy draped in yellow ribbons, Murphy laughed at the memory of Hughton's footwear solution.
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