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Bit quiet on here at the moment, and I just thought... If only....

If only Gascoigne's leg was 2" longer!

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Guardian Football's Joy of Six today has 6 goals that never were: the 6th one is on the lines of "if only..."

Scholes (MANCHESTER UNITED v Porto, Champions League second round, 2004)

Has any disallowed strike disrupted the space-time continuum of the club scene like this? In the second leg of their second-round tie against Porto in the 2003-04 Champions League, Manchester United were ahead on away goals and cruising when Paul Scholes was put through just before half-time. Slotting home comfortably, United were inexplicably hauled back, even though three defenders were playing Scholes onside.What would have happened next is a moot point, and it can be argued that if everything else that evening remained constant, the game would have gone to extra-time, and Porto might have still prevailed. But you know the narrative arcs of football are never mathematically perfect. Porto would more likely have been deflated after Scholes's "second", United building up a head of steam. In which case, José Mourinho does not go on to become the Special One of the Champions League, he does not get the newly vacant Chelsea job, Rafa Benítez leaves Valencia to take over at Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2004 and the entire roadmap of European football changes completely (not to mention the rugged terrain in certain A4-sheet-of-paper-wielding Chelsea supporters' heads). Oh linesman

Walsh hitting the post is a good one. Gutted that day. Surely we would have had a chance v Luton?

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