Steven Kelly's Year in Sport: 'The whistle blew. The celebrations were like nothing before. This one just shouldn’t have been possible'

The past and the present are in a permanent state of war with each other, generally over which is best — and never more so than in football.

Steven Kelly's Year in Sport: 'The whistle blew. The celebrations were like nothing before. This one just shouldn’t have been possible'

The past and the present are in a permanent state of war with each other, generally over which is best — and never more so than in football.

When I was a kid, and the FA Cup would roll around, we would be ‘treated’ to snippets of The Matthews Final, that famous day when ... erm ... Stan Mortensen scored three goals and won the cup for Blackpool.

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