ABSTRACT

Like many trauma victims, when David Busst is asked to describe the events of Saturday, April 8, 1996, at Old Trafford, his mind's eye operates in slow motion.

Eighty seconds gone and we force a corner …. I trot up from central defence to take up my usual position at the back post … the ball curls in … Noel Whelan heads it goalwards …. Peter Schmeichel parries and I slide in with Brian McClair and Denis Irwin …. I manage to get my toe to the ball first … and that's when the screaming started.

(Philip, Daily Telegraph, 19 January 2005)