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Photograph: Allsport/Getty</p> </div> <h2><strong>1. </strong><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kOsi51Sf0#t=5m06s" title="Ryszard Tarasiewicz hadn't hit the bar"><strong>Rysard Tarasiewicz hadn't hit the bar</strong></a><strong>, Poland 0-0 <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/england">England</a>, World Cup qualification Group 1, 11/10/1989</strong></h2><p>Commentators are fond of saying that "the crossbar is still shaking" when a particularly well-struck shot rebounds off the metalwork. The crossbar in Chorzow has long since stopped shivering from the impact of Ryszard Tarasiewicz's vicious howitzer in the final minute of a World Cup qualifier 20 years ago, but English football is still reverberating. To explain: had Tarasiewicz's shot, the last on a night in which Poland relentlessly pummelled the magnificent Peter Shilton from all angles and distances (or "another parish", as Hugh McIlvanney brilliantly put it on these pages), gone in, England almost certainly would not have qualified for Italia 90*. There have been many fascinating examples of ultimately successful sides who came within a whisker of not even qualifying: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/feb/10/rob-smyth-forgotten-story-holland-belgium" title="Holland in 1974">Holland in 1974</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification%E2%80%9D title=" title="France in 1982">France in 1982</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_World_Cup_1990_(qualification)%E2%80%9D title=" title="West Germany in 1990">West Germany in 1990</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification%E2%80%9D title=" title="Bulgaria in 1994">Bulgaria in 1994</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification%E2%80%9D title=" title="Brazil in 2002">Brazil in 2002</a>. But none had anywhere near as broad an impact as England's qualification for Italia 90.</p><p>Had they failed to do so there would been no tear-stained, Pavarotti-soundtracked glory, no middle-class adoption of 'footy', no Premier League, <em>no plummy numpties in the Sports Cafe in Haymarket on April 4 2000 saying really loudly, 'Ah there's Wes Brown' when Mikael Silvestre comes on as substitute, Brown having been out all season with a broken leg</em>. These things might have happened eventually, but they would have happened at a different time and in a different way. We might also speculate as to the impact on individuals. Bobby Robson would have been remembered as a complete failure who did not qualify for two out of four tournaments and lost all three games in one of the others; Paul Gascoigne's life might – <em>might </em>– have taken a different path without the overbearing impact of Gazzamania and its darker sequel, Gazza's mania; and we might never have heard of Tim Lovejoy. Sod patriotism: <em>why didn't he score?</em></p><p><strong></p><p></strong><strong><em>* </em></strong><em>A defeat in Poland would not have eliminated England at that time, as there were other games to play and </em><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification" title="a complex system that involved the best runners-up"><em>a complex system that involved the best runners-up</em></a><em>. But had those subsequent games, both in England's group and the other relevant groups, panned out as they actually did, a 1-0 defeat in Poland would ultimately have put England out, with Denmark (who were in a different group) qualifying ahead of England on goals scored.</em><strong></p><p></strong> </p><h2><strong>2. </strong><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3hrZlMJoOw&feature=related" title="Paul Scholes hadn't been wrongly ruled offside"><strong>Paul Scholes hadn't been wrongly ruled offside</strong></a><strong>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/manchester-united">Manchester United</a> 1-1 FC Porto (agg: 2-3), European Cup first knockout round, 09/03/2004</strong></h2><p>As Manchester United dominated the first decade of New Football, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABU" title="ABUs">ABUs</a> around the country consoled each other with the received wisdom that United were only successful because referees consistently bottled it at Old Trafford; that they wouldn't even give a fair decision against United, never mind an unfair one. Those ABUs should have been careful what they wished for because, when they got what they wanted, its ultimate impact was to inflict upon them a manager and team they would hate almost as much as Sir Alex Ferguson and United.</p><p>Had Paul Scholes's goal not been disallowed when he was being played onside by three defenders, United would have gone 2-0 up (and 3-2 ahead on aggregate) against Porto in their European Cup meeting. Porto might easily have come back, and the last-minute goal that Costinha later scored would theoretically have taken the tie to extra-time, but the narrative of a game that a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.soccerbase.com/results3.sd?gameid=415871" title="hodgepodge of a United side">hodgepodge of a United side</a> were completely dominating (Eric Djemba-Djemba had by some distance his best game for the club – insert your own joke here – before going off injured at half-time) and our experience of such contests between dignitary and upstart suggests that United would have closed the game out.</p><p>Had they done so, Mourinho would not have <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QDn2DpakF0&feature=related" title="charged down the Old Trafford touchline">charged down the Old Trafford touchline</a> and into our consciousness, Matalan coat flapping in the breeze, and there is no way that Roman Abramovich would have hired a little-known Portuguese manager whose side had been knocked out in he last 16 of the European Cup. Mourinho's time would have come, because genius cannot be contained, but it would almost certainly not have come in England (who <em>would</em> have got the Chelsea job?) and Chelsea might still be waiting for their first title since the 1950s. Instead, as United went through a startlingly fallow period, projecting anti-United hatred towards Chelsea became as easy as ABC.</p><h2><strong>3. </strong><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX13ngG_Lzk#t=3m59s" title="Kevin Brock hadn't decided to pass the ball back to his goalkeeper"><strong>Kevin Brock hadn't decided to pass the ball back to his goalkeeper</strong></a><strong>, Oxford 1-1 Everton, Milk Cup quarter-final, 18/01/1984</strong></h2><p>What is interesting about the examples of Howard Kendall and Alex Ferguson, supposedly saved from the sack by goals in cup matches that were the tipping points of their ultimately triumphant reigns at Everton and Manchester United, is how unthinkable such a scenario is now. Not only because new managers would not be allowed three years of perceived mediocrity (a terrible failing of trigger-happy chairmen, but that's another piece entirely) but also because their job prospects were seemingly contingent on <em>cup</em> rather league success. These days managers are judged almost exclusively on their league performance, an ostensibly mature approach but one that is probably linked more to the money contained therein than any sense of appraising the overall progress of a club. Yet 20 years ago, and it seems daft to type this, Kendall's job was apparently saved by a goal in a <em>Milk Cup tie</em>.</p><p>It came when, with Everton trailing 1-0 to Oxford at time running out, Kevin Brock's pathetic backpass was seized upon by Adrian Heath. David Lacey wrote that Brock "threw Everton not so much a lifeline as a lifeboat, complete with survival rations". They went on to the final and, though they lost to Liverpool, by then there were enough signs of genuine progress. An FA Cup run would end in victory over Watford at Wembley; they also jumped from 18th to 7th in the league, losing only one game in the next three months and turning round a truly miserable first half of the season in which, unthinkably, they scored only 11 goals in 21 league games.</p><p>At that stage Kendall, despite being an Everton legend, was the subject of some brutal abuse and seemed to be a dead man mumbling. But the following season they scored 45 goals in the first 21 games on their way to a stunningly emphatic title victory, as Kendall's farsighted investment in talented youngsters from the lower divisions bore the richest fruit. In fact they probably would have won three titles in a row but for a disastrous and unfathomable defeat at, of all places, Oxford's Manor Ground – neatly dubbed 'the scene of the climb' by a Guardian sub-editor – in the 1985-86 run-in.</p><h2><strong>4. </strong><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MERJ5rLfxY#t=7m07s" title="Matt Le Tisser's flat lobbed volley had dipped under the bar"><strong>Matt Le Tisser's volley had dipped under the bar</strong></a><strong>, England 1-1 Romania, international friendly, 12/10/1994</strong></h2><p>There is an erroneous perception that Matthew Le Tissier's England career, such as it was, is the story of various buttoned-down managers who preferred graft to genius. This isn't strictly the case. In the early 90s, Le Tissier wasn't quite ready, and in the late 90s he was more waddler than Waddle, at first resigned to and then content with the quiet life. If anything, you could argue that the two appearances he was given under Glenn Hoddle – and particularly that ultra-random appearance in a World Cup qualifier against Italy – were a rare example of the otherwise fiercely pragmatic Hoddle surrendering to sentiment.</p><p>With Terry Venables, it is different. For most of Venables' reign Le Tissier was ensconced in the mother of all purple patches – a perception supported by the fact, even though he bizarrely won only three fans' player of the season awards in his 16 years at Southampton (and you'll enjoy looking at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.southampton-mad.co.uk/news/loadsngl.asp?CID=EDZ4" title="the names of those who beat him">the names of those who beat him</a>) two of those came in 1994 and 1995. That was his golden period, when Alan Ball's crafty management enabled him to touch greatness on a regular basis. In Ball's first 50 games as manager Le Tissier scored 37 goals in a lower mid-table side, a remorseless rate of scoring which, even allowing for the odd penalty, obliterates the myth that this was a man who dealt in the spectacular on a sporadic basis. For those two years he was a great goalscorer <em>and</em> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSsdfe4Z69g" title="a scorer of great goals">a scorer of great goals</a>.</p><p>Yet all along, you suspect, Venables didn't fancy him. This is not necessarily to decry Venables, a scandalously maligned coach whose end justified the means; it's just the way it was. When he gave Le Tissier his first start for England, against Romania in October 1994, it was almost under duress from the public. In the first 10 minutes, Le Tissier nearly scored a goal of breathtaking brilliance with a deliciously improvised two-touch manoeuvre that involved stabbing the ball up and then hitting a volley that somehow managed to be both lobbed and flat. It whistled just over the bar; had it gone in, Le Tissier would surely have had at least five games' grace, maybe more. The public would have demanded it. More importantly, he would have been internally empowered to play with the same freedom he had at Southampton. Instead, doubt was forever stalking him. After an OK performance against Romania – no better or worse than any of the other creative players on a night when England were hopelessly outclassed – he was dropped for the next game against Nigeria and replaced by, and you'll like this, Dennis Wise.</p><p>Le Tissier's only other start came a few months later in Ireland, a fixture so obviously full of muck and bullets that the more cynical fan might suggest that Venables, who had snapped 'You can't choose when you like to play' in reference to Le Tissier in a pre-match press conference, wanted him to fail. He didn't have the chance: the game was abandoned in the first half because of rioting, and Le Tissier was never picked for another Venables squad, never mind team. Le Tissier is such an admirably sanguine fellow that he probably put it to bed years ago. We will forever wonder what might have been.</p><h2><strong>5. </strong><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bw_rKZiOSM#t=4m27s" title="Rob Rensenbrink hadn't hit the post"><strong>Rob Rensenbrink hadn't hit the post</strong></a><strong>, Argentina 3-1 Holland, World Cup final, 25/06/1978</strong></h2><p>Most what ifs focus on the medium-term impact of the specific incident, yet this one was entirely self-contained: if Rob Rensenbrink's shot in injury time of the 1978 World Cup final had gone in - and it was going in until it kicked like a doosra to hit the post - Holland would have been world champions. You'd think so anyway, although you have to wonder: the utterly scary miiltary junta that was running Argentina at the time seemed to have misinterpreted the privileges of hosting a World Cup, and concluded that it gave you not only automatic qualification but also automatic victory. Argentina were going to win the 1978 World Cup, be it by foul means or fouler. Years later, Johnny Rep speculated as to whether the referee might have simply kept playing until he could find an appropriate scenario to give Argentina a penalty. "Maybe we wouldn't have got out alive," Rep added. "People say that."</p><p>Inevitably, there were knock-on effects as well. A decent portion of the romance surrounding Total Football is indelibly linked to the fact that Holland won nothing; similarly, had he scored, Rensenbrink rather than Mario Kempes would have claimed the Golden Boot and might now be sitting alongside Johan Cruyff in the pantheon (some, including the 70s Dutch international Jan Mulder, say he was better). "Rensenbrink," wrote David Winner in Brilliant Orange, "would probably have had Dutch streets named after him." There is another angle, too: imagine the extent to which Diego Maradona would have been deified if, in 1986, he had not only won the World Cup single-handedly, but one his country's <em>first</em> World Cup single-handedly.</p><h2><strong>6. </strong><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4llH2axuBQ" title="Henrik Larsson hadn't broken the leg"><strong>Henrik Larsson hadn't broken his leg</strong></a><strong>, Lyon 1-0 Celtic, Uefa Cup, 21/10/1999</p><p></strong></h2><p>It's a good job Britain isn't a borderline racist country, or we'd be seriously moved to question why John Barnes didn't get an other management job for almost a decade after leaving Celtic. Yes, he ultimately a failure in Scotland, but being a failed British manager is surely the basis for inclusion rather than ostracism. And, unlike so many of his peers who ballsed up from start to increasingly inevitable, finish, Barnes was viciously unlucky when Henrik Larsson – the best player in Scotland, followed by a ridiculous amount of daylight – broke his leg in a Uefa Cup tie in Lyon. As Larsson's leg snapped grotesquely at 45 degrees, so Celtic's season did a 180. As the table below shows, their form with and without him was not so much hot and cold as volcanic and Antarctic.</p><div class="embed inline"> <table class="in-article sortable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <caption> <h2>Celtic under John Barnes with and without Henrik Larsson</h2> </caption> <thead> <tr> <td id="table-cell-2154--1-0"> </td> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-1" scope="col" class="left"> <div>Played</div> </th> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-2" scope="col" class="left"> <div>Won</div> </th> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-3" scope="col" class="left"> <div>Drawn</div> </th> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-4" scope="col" class="left"> <div>Lost</div> </th> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-5" scope="col" class="left"> <div>For</div> </th> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-6" scope="col" class="left"> <div>Against</div> </th> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-7" scope="col" class="left"> <div>Win percentage</div> </th> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-8" scope="col" class="left"> <div>Loss percentage</div> </th> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-9" scope="col" class="left"> <div>Goals per game</div> </th> <th id="table-cell-2154--1-10" scope="col" class="last left"> <div>Goals conceded per game</div> </th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-0" class="left"> Before injury </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-1" class="left"> 13 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-2" class="left"> 12 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-3" class="left"> 0 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-4" class="left"> 1 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-5" class="left"> 42 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-6" class="left"> 3 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-7" class="left"> 92 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-8" class="left"> 8 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-9" class="left"> 3.23 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-0-10" class="last left"> 0.23 </td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-0" class="left"> After injury </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-1" class="left"> 16 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-2" class="left"> 7 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-3" class="left"> 2 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-4" class="left"> 7 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-5" class="left"> 33 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-6" class="left"> 22 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-7" class="left"> 44 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-8" class="left"> 44 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-9" class="left"> 2.06 </td> <td id="table-cell-2154-1-10" class="last left"> 1.4 </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div><p>Celtic were not just winning with Larsson; they were dismantling teams with some gloriously aesthetic football. Indeed, five days before that Lyon match they had eviscerated Aberdeen 7-0 – and been berated by Barnes for their sloppy passing. (In one of the great <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090730015325/http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/sep/10/1" title="forgotten hexes">forgotten hexes</a>, Celtic beat Aberdeen 5-0, 7-0, 6-0 and 5-1 in their four league meetings that season.) It is easy to say that a side should not be so dependent on one player, and that's a valid point, but Larsson was so superior as to make that a simple fact of life. In six seasons between 1998 and his departure in 2004, Larsson was the league's top scorer in five; 1999-2000 was the exception that ruled against Barnes. In the following season, Martin O'Neill's first at the club, Larsson scored <em>53 goals </em>as Celtic won a treble. 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