The outcomes of soccer matches have typically left supporters scarred for all times – in Colin Murray’s case, actually.
The Countdown host has been a Liverpool fan since his childhood in Northern Eire however the 1986 FA Cup Last ended up touchdown him in hospital.
Liverpool beat Everton 3-1 in entrance of 98,000 at Wembley, with Ian Rush scoring twice. Makes an attempt to recreate one of many targets on the streets after the match went awry for Murray, although.
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“My two Liverpool heroes have been Ian Rush and Alan Hansen – Rush is chargeable for a scar I’ve, after the FA Cup Last in 1986,” the 47-year-old stated, within the season preview challenge of FourFourTwo journal. “That they had cameras within the nets, which I don’t suppose they’d had earlier than, and Rush smashed the third objective into the nook and hit the digicam.
“After the sport, we went onto the road to copy the targets and I used to be the Everton goalkeeper, Bobby Mimms.”
To date, so good – a easy story of children recreating the targets from the FA Cup Last, a narrative as outdated as time. What may presumably go fallacious?
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“There was a block of wooden with just a little nail in it, which we arrange because the digicam,” Murray defined. Ah… “One in every of my mates hit the wooden, it went up within the air and the nail caught into my head. I needed to go to hospital.”
Not that Murray has ever held a grudge towards Rush for the scar. “Some time in the past, I co-managed a charity recreation for Chester with Ian,” he stated. “We had amusing as a result of he didn’t give a s*** and I used to be screaming at Clinton Morrison to cross the ball.
“He stated the BBC billed him for that digicam. They tried to make him pay for it! Are you able to think about if Erling Haaland hit a digicam within the web and Sky went, ‘You owe us £150’?”
Murray and Elis James have launched a podcast, All the pieces To Play For, revisiting nice sporting tales, together with Wayne Rooney’s emergence. Go to wondery.com/exhibits/everything-to-play-for
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