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 targets on the streets after the match went awry for Murray, although.
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“My two Liverpool heroes had been Ian Rush and Alan Hansen – Rush is answerable for a scar I’ve, after the FA Cup Closing in 1986,” the 47-year-old mentioned, within the season preview problem 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 duplicate the targets and I used to be the Everton goalkeeper, Bobby Mimms.”
Up to now, so good – a easy story of children recreating the targets from the FA Cup Closing, a narrative as previous as time. What might presumably go incorrect?
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“There was a block of wooden with a little bit nail in it, which we arrange because the digicam,” Murray defined. Ah… “One among 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 recreation for Chester with Ian,” he mentioned. “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 mentioned 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 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/reveals/everything-to-play-for
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