The Winner; The big smoke's One Step Beyond a joke.(Sport)

From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: June 17, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Must have been about seven o'clock yesterday morning.

I'm lying there in the darkened hotel room, re-running the penalty in my head for the hundredth time.

For the hundredth time, Gary swaggers up, shimmies, puts Seaman the wrong way. One-one.

Then for the hundredth time I tell myself that no matter how many hundreds of times you kid yourself on, it won't change the fact that he missed it.

So I'm lying there in the gloom, wishing we could turn the clock back to 4.32pm on Saturday when suddenly I find myself laughing out loud.

And out from behind a black ...

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