That title decider is the go-to example of how sporting history is rewritten by the winners. Hornby grabbed the opportunity with Fever Pitch and Godzilla was born with the genre of football literature, fans elevating random events such as last minute goals and penalty shoot-out wins into the moment the world changed forever. God knows Liverpool fans have done it enough times since (the only desirable side-effect of the club not winning the title this season is we won’t have to endure another round of God-awful plays as we did post-Istanbul).