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Mike Walters

Gordon McQueen's Man Utd claim stung Leeds fans but Braveheart was still universally loved

On the day Tartan Army renegades rearranged the furniture at Wembley, Gordon McQueen made us believe a man could fly.

Climbing to an improbable altitude to meet Asa Hartford's free-kick, the visiting caledonian aeronaut put Scotland ahead against England in 1977 with a colossal header which thundered past Three Lions keeper Ray Clemence before he could twitch.

McQueen's glorious crash-landing only made his appearance as king of the skies, somewhere up there with the old twin towers, even more thrilling.

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