Great Goals Retold: Barry Davies on Gazza's ’91 FA Cup rocket

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The famous football commentator recounts the infamous semi-final in 1991, when Tottenham's Paul Gascoigne scored a sumptuous free-kick against Arsenal...

In this video interview with FourFourTwo, legendary football commentator Barry Davies casts his mind back to the 1991 FA Cup semi-final, and Paul Gascoigne's stunning goal in particular.

The England international opened the scoring in the fifth minute with a wonderful free-kick that set Spurs on their way to a famous 3-1 victory.

Davies, who was commentating on the game at the time, recounts the goal and discusses what it was like to see Gascoigne's effort fly in while trying to hide his Tottenham allegiances...

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Greg Lea
Greg Lea

Greg Lea is a freelance football journalist who's filled in wherever FourFourTwo needs him since 2014. He became a Crystal Palace fan after watching a 1-0 loss to Port Vale in 1998, and once got on the scoresheet in a primary school game against Wilfried Zaha's Whitehorse Manor (an own goal in an 8-0 defeat).