Jimmy Glass after football: "No matter how bad things got, I never wished the Carlisle goal hadn’t happened"

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His unbelievable last-gasp goal for Carlisle United on this day 20 years ago will be remembered forever, but what happened to Glass after he saved the Cumbrians from Football League oblivion? He tells all...

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Swindon Town

AFC Bournemouth

Carlisle United

Crystal Palace

Crawley Town

Portsmouth

Brentford

Oxford United

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At 16 I’d be running around up front in training next to Ian Wright and Mark Bright at Palace, with Steve Coppell cheering me on. Sometimes I think maybe I made the wrong decision by becoming a keeper

I got to London and kept driving. At Dover, I got on the ferry to Calais, but Calais was a s**thole so I didn’t want to stay there. It was either turn right to Spain, which seemed like a long way, or turn left and go to Belgium

I didn’t straighten myself out. I lost £100,000 gambling in two years after leaving Swindon. Sometimes I would spend 14 hours in a casino

The keeper would go up and the commentators would say, 'He’s doing a Jimmy Glass' – while I’m sat at a taxi rank in Wimborne

I went there and met Piers Morgan – they had some crazy ideas and wanted to make a double page with me as a kind of ‘Magical Man’, doing silly things like getting Mohamed Al-Fayed his British passport

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