Wildest dreams
The Times offers their top fifty “wish you’d been there” moments in football.
What if you had a time machine and could set it to take you back to any point in football history? Which matches, which moments, would you choose—so you could proudly say, years later, “I was there”?
For me, No. 2, “The miracle of Istanbul, 2005,” will always be No. 1 (until, of course, Liverpool wins No. 6 or No. 19; or England wins No. 2).
Very glad that I could be there with you, lad — even though I was able to hear the anti-Italian invectives from nearly a half-mile away up the hill.