Those who were not there will never forget ‘Ronnie’s Rocket’. Thanks to the Match of the Day cameras and John Motson’s commentary, but thanks most of all to the scorer, Ronnie Radford, it remains one of the most iconic of all FA Cup goals.
It was a 35-yard piledriver on a wintry quagmire of a pitch and it ignited possibly the most famous Cup giant-killing of all time, by non-League Hereford United over mighty First Division Newcastle United.
Later anointed Goal of the Season, Ronnie’s Rocket also propelled Radford, a 28-year-old joiner from a Yorkshire pit village, into the ranks of the footballing immortals.