Having just watched last night's climactic penalty shoot out again, I've realised the true inspiration behind Dudek's eccentric goal line behaviour. Those shuffling sideways movements, the flailing arms... he was clearly influenced, not by Bruce Grobbelaar, but by eighties arcade classic, Donkey Kong. Indeed, handing the football to each of the Milan penalty takers was his way of symbolically lobbing a barrel at them.
Readers: have you noticed any other similarities between the gamesmanship of Premiership football players and the repetitive actions of classic coin-op characters?
