I said at the time it was the best game I'd ever seen.

Since then, I must have seen a thousand games, and I still haven't seen what to beat it for 90 minutes.

When you look at the glee pot of a pitch and the skill involved, a goal in the first minute. A winner in the last minute.

It was everything you want football to be.

The game typified what the Premier League was set up to do.

We wanted the world watching and the cream of the world joining the cream of British football.

Welcome to It Was What It Was.

I'm Jonathan Wilson. I'm with Rob Draper.

And that was a man from an unidentified part of Scotland

impersonating the Skypundit Andy Gray,

now at being, speaking in 2020,

about the epic 4-3 win for Liverpool over Newcastle United

on the 3rd of April, 1996.

The moment the dream ended for Keegan's Newcastle,

the moment that's come to symbolise the collapse of their title challenge.

It's a game that lives on in a collective consciousness.

If you look at various polls, so in 2002 there was a poll, what was the greatest game of the first decade of the Premier League?

People said that game.

In 2017, the Guardian did the poll, what was the greatest game in the first 25 years of the Premier League, it was that game.

Five years later in 2022, so almost 30 years after that game, it came fifth.

It was the only 90s game mentioned in that poll.

But I suspect that large as that game looms in the general consciousness, and it is one of those games that whenever you come in from the pub in the early hours and click the telly on, you'll be able to find it. So it feels like 50% of the time it will be there. And despite that, I think it's a game people probably don't quite remember as well as they think they do. It's a game that's almost too familiar for us to bother with.

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