Retro: Clough The Clown, Not Tomaszewski.

Photo by PA Images via Getty Images Jan Tomaszewski who mightily defied England on 17 October 1973 in one of the most inspired goalkeeping performances this author has ever seen.My English friends of similar vintage will not thank me for recalling this hour and a half of pure footballing drama.

England v Poland on 17 October 1973 sticks in my memory like a limpet to a rock. It remains to this day one of the greatest games of football I’ve ever witnessed.

I was still short of my eleventh birthday, but in an age when very few matches were televised live, excitement had reached fever-pitch. It was billed for weeks before, ‘England’s most important game since 1966’. Practically the whole…