Benni McCarthy might be on the Manchester United coaching staff now, but he was also the chief protagonist of one of the most memorable Old Trafford moments in the last two decades.
This wasn't one of those occasions of a memorable United comeback. It wasn't a famous Old Trafford European night. At least it wasn't for the home team.
It's Tuesday, March 9, 2004, and McCarthy's free-kick for Porto in the dying seconds of a Champions League second-leg tie is pushed away by Tim Howard, straight into the path of Costinha, who slots the ball into the empty net.
But it's not the goal that everyone remembers. That's not why we're still talking about it 20 years later. It's what happens next.
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