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Wonder goal still gets ex-player stopped in street

It was a rare occasion on which Match Of The Day would stray into the Second Division.

But on one Saturday in February 1975, the programme decided to cover Blackpool's fixture against Sunderland.

And in doing so, it found its Goal of The Season courtesy of the The Seasiders' Mickey Walsh, who remains to this day the only player to win the accolade for a Second Division goal.

"I get people asking me, 'Are you the guy?' as they play YouTube clips to me," says Walsh, now 70, says, on the 50th anniversary of the match that saw him enter a footballing pantheon that would go on to include the likes of Paul Gascoigne, Dennis Bergkamp, Ryan Giggs and Steven Gerrard.