Ian Rush and Tony Yeboah at the high point of optimism
As an image of pure optimism I don't think this can be bettered. It's a weird image. It's a great image. God, Ian Rush was rubbish though.
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Tony Yeboah in the Champions League: Hamburg vs Juventus, September 2000
Yeboah seemed anxious to calm Egdar Davids down; they walk off the pitch with arms around each other's shoulders, Yeboah earnestly advising the younger player, then going to tell Stig Tofting that it might not be necessary to kill Edgar after all.
Tony Yeboah on the volley: Leeds United vs Liverpool, August '95
A strike from the 1970s by Peter Lorimer no longer looked the same, as now it was compared to the goal that was come. Any goal Yeboah scored from that day forward carried echoes of The Yeboah Volley. His life would never be the same, history would never be the same.
Tony Yeboah in Frankfurt: vs Widzew Lodz, September '92
Widzew's midfielder Mirosław Myślinski later described the giant digital rooster announcing every goal on Eintracht's scoreboard. "Long after that," he said, "I had nightmares of it crowing."