Mark Robins was the young striker without whose goal the modern Manchester United would not have happened the same way. At least, that’s the myth.
Without Robins’ January 1990 header at Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup, it was widely reported, Alex Ferguson would have been sacked as manager. Without Ferguson, no two decades of glory for English football’s biggest club is the logic.
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