Golden Goal: Bryan Robson for Manchester United v Wimbledon (1993)

A goal that meant nothing also meant everything, because football is about a lot more than football

Very little gets people as excited as football, a fairly embarrassing admission to make given 200,000 years of human history: a bunch of people kick a ball about, then the rest of us go on like it’s something we’ve done ourselves. Except in a way it is, because our clubs were built by us and form part of us, representing where we’re at and what we believe in. So inasmuch as anything makes sense the extent of our love for them makes sense, and when we talk about football what we’re really talking about is love – love for who we are.

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Episode 9 is here! Daniel and @AndyBurnhamGM discuss Eric Cantona, the horror of burgling Duncan Ferguson and how on earth you can want to be Prime Ministers. Oh yeah, and the 1995 FA Cup final. https://t.co/wWaLL7f0b8

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