On May 13, 2006, Lionel Scaloni could not stop crying. The tears flowed from the moment he left Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium to arriving in London, his agent-dad Angel having boarded the West Ham bus to lend him a shoulder for that torturous trip.
Scaloni blamed himself for West Ham losing the 2006 FA Cup final to Liverpool. He had given the ball away before Steven Gerrard scored that goal. Had he not shanked a clearance as the clock struck 90 minutes, this would never have gone down as ‘the Gerrard final’.
The moment is still raw in the minds of his old manager and team-mates.