Giles flashback proves he was a dream player

Flushed by cup fever last weekend — or perhaps slightly nauseous watching JT and Lamps plot their tag-team silverware hoist — I indulged heavily in ESPN’s gluttonous reprise of cup finals past.

The 1973 decider stood out. Brian Moore’s commentary radiated a sense of occasion Clive Tyldesley or Jon Champion can’t match — partly, I suppose, because the occasion is now so diminished.

There was Jim Montgomery’s miraculous save, surely ahead of Banks’ claw-out three years earlier, and audacious dives from Allan Clarke and Billy Bremner, rather giving the lie to Gary Neville’s recent loud insistence that foreigners seeded that practice in England.