Gareth Bale’s brilliance will always be best summed up by one goal – and it isn’t that extraordinary volley past Liverpool keeper Loris Karius in the 2018 Champions League final.
I was at the Spanish Cup final in 2014, and like most of the main stand, briefly lost sight of the Cardiff Express as he ran off the pitch and then back on to it in order to sprint past Barcelona defender Marc Bartra and score the winner five minutes from time.
That was his night. He was up against Neymar who had been Barcelona’s big signing the previous summer.