Nick Hornby writes in Fever Pitch: A Fan’s Life, real life doesn’t usually provide last-minute winners, and this may be the primary reason we are so fascinated by ‘football’. We as football fans seldom remember each football match in its minute detail, even the entirety of the match gets lost from our collective memory. What remains with us are ‘individual moments’ - The transcendental shots, the miraculous saves, the last minute match winners.

Cristiano Ronaldo was discovered by Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson, way back in 2003. Ronaldo still considers the latter to be his godfather so naturally, when Portugal won the Euro cup 2016 he went out of his way to hug Alex Ferguson in the stands.

The picture that spurned the headline “10 Heroic Lions, 1 Stupid Boy”. In a thrilling contest between old rivals England and Argentina, England’s blue-eyed boy unnecessarily kicked out at Diego Simeone to earn himself a straight red. Soon. Beckham was dubbed the 1998 World Cup villain.