There are some who swear you could have nipped outside onto Westgate Street for a burger as Paul Thorburn struck his monster goal-kick against Scotland in 1986 and still made it back inside the old National Stadium to see the ball fly between the posts.
“It just sailed on and on,” wrote the Western Mail’s JBG Thomas, not a man noted for wild exaggeration.
The kick was later measured at 70 yards eight and a half inches or 64.2 metres. It was deemed to be the longest ever in an international match.
