The outcomes of soccer matches have usually 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 Closing 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 objectives 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 liable for a scar I’ve, after the FA Cup Closing in 1986,” the 47-year-old stated, within the season preview situation of FourFourTwo journal. “They’d cameras within the nets, which I don’t assume they’d had earlier than, and Rush smashed the third aim into the nook and hit the digital camera.
“After the sport, we went onto the road to duplicate the objectives and I used to be the Everton goalkeeper, Bobby Mimms.”
To date, so good – a easy story of children recreating the objectives from the FA Cup Closing, a narrative as outdated as time. What may presumably go improper?
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“There was a block of wooden with slightly nail in it, which we arrange because the digital camera,” 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 in opposition to Rush for the scar. “Some time in the past, I co-managed a charity sport 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 move the ball.
“He stated the BBC billed him for that digital camera. They tried to make him pay for it! Are you able to think about if Erling Haaland hit a digital camera within the internet and Sky went, ‘You owe us £150’?”
Murray and Elis James have launched a podcast, All the things 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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