For sheer audacity, it was one of Terry McDermott’s best goals for Liverpool, if not the finest. And 40 years later, he wonders if it planted the seed for one of football’s longest-held grudges – Sir Alex Ferguson’s famous mission statement to knock the Liver bird off its perch.
McDermott rarely settled for a tap-in where a goal-of-the-season contender for the archives was available. His exquisite chip over Everton keeper David Lawson, in an FA Cup semi-final, won him the BBC gong in 1977.
But the former England midfielder and Kop legend rates another perfectly-weighted pitching wedge with his left peg, at Aberdeen in a European Cup ‘battle of Britain’ in 1980, as an even better one.