Alan Smith

It was almost a bit taken aback, like seeing the club that he played for top of the league in English football.

And there were a lot of people in that situation because you look at Alan Smith, who'd come from Leicester, who was massive that season as well, another quite underrated guy.

He wasn't Charlie Nicholas in terms of his aura and his status, but he was a phenomenal footballer who found his place there and just finished top scoring in the division with some incredible performances.

It says how good he was.

I love an in-swinging free kick because it's absolute chaos.

Nigel Winterburn into the box.

The barest of touches from Alan Smith into the net.

Q, I mean, we talk about VAR killing football now and you can't just be in the moment and, well...

I was listening to the commentary and the co-commentator is Tony Gale.

Now, listening to Tony Gale commentate on Fulham, is a bit like listening to Alan Smith commentate on Arsenal or Jamie Carragher commentate on Liverpool.

He is incredibly biased.

You also had the main commentator who called Deitchy Kamada, Deitch Kamada.

Deitch Kamada.

I'm glad you mentioned co-commentators because I wasn't at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

And as ever, Alan Smith has got some sort of vendetta against Palace.

The shade that comes across every time he's on co-coms for Sky and Palace are playing.

I can remember the commentary.

I even remember Alan Smith getting a, being praised for doing a carving run across the front line.

And I believe Gary Lineker told a story about Alan Smith getting his first, and I think only ever booking, when he put in a foul and the ref turned around and said, and he said to the ref, ref, I've never been booked.

And the ref sort of said, well, you're getting booked today.

So my first two memories of Anfield involved Arsenal winning by two goals to nil and one goal to nil.