From Steve Morrow falling from Tony Adams’s shoulders to Stuart McCall headbutting an affordable car, here are half-a-dozen bittersweet moments
Steve Morrow was a fine player. Thirty-nine international caps for Northern Ireland, a Cup Winners’ Cup medal in the cabinet and a career that took him from Arsenal to QPR to Dallas probably deserves to be remembered for more than a calamitous fall to ruin what is almost certainly the high point of his working life. But as David Baddiel and Frank Skinner were at pains to point out a few years later, Morrow’s ill-fated tumble off the shoulders of his captain, Tony Adams, after the 1993 League Cup final would eclipse everything else, even the winning goal Morrow had scored for Arsenal not half an hour previously.
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