Agree, the flair players in all sport grab the headlines and promote the sport.

This thread would be sticky if he had signed for us, probably alongside a sticky thread titled "Chase him out, hes cack"

Don't think it had. Watched it back on a well known website and play goes on after the save for a good few seconds to the end of the clip.

It had definitely been blown, remember watching it live and saying it.

Whatever your opinion about the guy - and he's done some things not to be proud of - that was a top notch display on Sunday. If that had been a union player, the TV and newspapers would still be wetting themselves now.

My own memory was that it would have counted as a goal if he'd misjudged it, and from what I can find online, I'd stick by that.
One possibility i saw suggested is that the linesman raised his flag, but the referee didn't blow as no England player was interfering with play, that being a recently introduced reinterpretation of the offside rule, back then. Basically Higuita thought he had a free shot at it, but didn't. He does look a bit ruefully apologetic afterwards, watching it back.

My point though is that pleasure to be derived from a piece of play, beyond it's simple effectiveness. Tbf, it is easier to appreciate when it's not against your own team. Westerman chucked a flamboyant dummy to score or create a try against us a while back that somebody had as an avatar for a while. I had to enjoy the beauty of that through slightly gritted teeth (although we might have won the game despite it, I can't recall).

It was a cracking piece of skill. Jamie Lyon's dummy & out the back is still a personal favourite, just how much it confused the defender.

Good bit of skill, still rather have someone who's a little more consistent over somebody that does something like that once every half a dozen games.