For a mercurial player and a maverick manager, it was a watershed moment. The careers of Paul Gascoigne and Brian Clough were never the same again after May 18 1991, the day the Tottenham midfielder wrecked his knee in an exhibition of kamikaze tackling and Nottingham Forest's European Cup-winning alchemist discovered he would never realise his lifelong ambition of winning the FA Cup.
Instead, Spurs lifted it for a then record eighth time. Now their wait for a ninth will ...
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