Monday 26 February 2018

The unparalleled joy of the last-minute football winner

Taggart’s 97th minute header elated Glory fans in the way only a last-minute winner can

The greatest regret of my life is narrated by Clive Tyldesley. It ends with the English commentator declaring emphatically “Solskjaer has won it!” somewhere around 9.30pm on Wednesday 26 May, 1999. Tyldesley was in the Camp Nou in Barcelona, I was in a pub on Manchester’s Oxford Road. We were both watching the most extraordinary conclusion to a Champions League final.

I should have been in Catalunya with Clive and 90,000 others but my conscience forced me into sitting a first-year university exam instead. It was the wrong decision.

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from Football | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2HMOYtg