27 years ago today:
Nicolas Anelka, inexplicably wearing goalie gloves, latches onto a filthy flick from Zinedine Zidane to score for France at Wembley.
What a time to be alive.
Today we celebrate the birth of a Champ Man legend.
A goal-poacher supreme plucked from the streets of Portugal.
Rumour says he was a data mishap. A figment of the imagination.
But mishaps don’t score 50+ goals and win the Champions League.
To Madeira. You were real to us.
38 years ago today:
The Nutcracker
Eindhoven, 1994.
A teenage prodigy touches down from Brazil ready to begin his Eredivisie adventure.
Mesmerising speed, both with and without the ball, allied with ice-cold precision in front of goal.
He was unlike anything we’d ever seen before.
He was Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima.
Fenomeno.
It’s the anniversary of this ruthless Ian Rush hat-trick on a frozen Friday night at Villa Park in 1984.
- Sidefoot
- Volley
- Lob
Goal machine.
It’s Steffen Freund’s birthday today. You remember him.
German international midfielder. Euro 96 and Champions League winner.
And close personal friend of Big Dunc...
It’s Ivan Zamorano’s birthday today.
Chilean goal poacher supreme.
And the original false nine.
It’s 36 years since The Rumble at Roker Park.
David Speedie and Gary Bennett have a difference of opinion that spills into the crowd.
The game descends into a Royal Rumble… until Big Cyrille Regis steams in to restore order.
The Beautiful Game.
It’s the 20th anniversary of this gutter filth from Guti.
Such a lack of respect for his fellow professionals.
14/01/00
Steve Guppy produces the Best Shit Clearance Of All Time.
Wait for the replay. Sensational use of the crossbar.
You can’t coach that.
