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.
"Yeboah is the man they'll be aiming for," suggested Sky Sports' commentator Rob Hawthorne, as John Lukic prepared a goal kick from in front of Elland Road's South Stand, "To produce something for them."
The clock was showing 50:00. By the time it read 50:18, Hawthorne's words had changed from an idea to a prophecy, and everything before that moment had changed, and everything that came after that moment was changed.
Tony Yeboah's powerful dipping volley into Liverpool's goal cracked the crossbar and it cracked time, dividing history into before and after, reverberating though both, leaving nothing in the stories of Leeds United or Anthony Yeboah untouched by the arc light of that one goal.
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.