Goal of the Month Focus: McTominay v Man City
For starters, it was different. I cannot remember seeing another goal like it during my 25 years or so of going to the game, though I’m sure someone with a more meticulous memory than my own will remind me of one. Paul Ince’s quick free-kick against Ipswich in the famous 9-0 win in 1994/95 is slightly similar, but nowhere near as dramatic.
Given the moment, given the opposition, given the match, it was a staggering gamble that paid off for McTominay. After all, had he miscued the ball, let’s say, so it headed straight back into Ederson’s arms and helped launch another City attack, what would the response have been?
Several people around me in the lower tier of the Stretford End were quite keen for the Scotland international to run the ball into the corner, if I remember accurately.
