“COLLYMORE CLOSING IN!”
LIVERPOOL 4-3 NEWCASTLE
(APRIL 1996)
“This is the best game I’ve ever commentated on. It had everything that would attract you to football: drama and significance, because both teams were going for the title. People forget that Liverpool were, too.
“It was a rollercoaster match – Liverpool scored after a couple of minutes, but didn’t lead again until stoppage time when Stan Collymore closed in…
“On the night I remarked, ‘This is one of the greatest games ever,’ so it isn’t just hindsight. During lockdown, I watched it again with my son – he’d never seen the match and said, ‘Yeah, you’re not wrong’. He would have told me if I was!
“We had to be moved on from the ground afterwards – we’d been in the presence of greatness
