The Web: Brian Glanville's top 50 football moments

Brian Glanville has rifled through his memory bank to provide Times Online’s latest top 50. The doyen of football writers, who has been covering the beautiful game for half a century, has chosen his greatest moments. Here are four to tempt you before we provide the full list online on Wednesday. Beware, one may be a red herring . . .
1966 World Cup final, Wembley Geoff Hurst and an Azerbaijani linesman. Need we say more?

1958 World Cup final, Stockholm Pelé, 17, having scored a hat-trick in the semi-finals, takes the ball down on his thigh before applying the coup de grâce.

1970 World Cup, Guadalajara That save. Gordon Banks flings himself acrobatically to his right to deny Pelé a certain goal.

1988 European Championship final, Munich Marco van Basten’s sensational volley takes Holland to a significant title at long last.

2006 World Cup, Stuttgart Graham Poll shows Josip Simunic the yellow card three times as Croatia draw with Australia.

The top 50 is available from Wednesday at timesonline.co.uk/sport