Let's check off the trademarks: we have hyper - saturated colour, characters
standing dead centre of the frame, gorgeous stylised environments, blandly outrageous statements, great humour, odd hairstyles and a sense of borderline farce.
For Gascoigne's free - kick, Arsenal at least had a flimsy 2 +1 - man wall which
stood about 15 yards away and it was in footballing terms «
dead centre» and so the disguise of a cross was eliminated but the audacity of attempting to score from so far out was the element of surprise.