Alex would pick up the cup where the prize was supposed to be.
"We're all like, 'I'd pick up the cup in broad daylight,' " one recalled.
You lifted up the cup and by the time you put it down — because the saucer was too curved up — the spoon had always slid down".
"It's not easy sitting back and looking at your opponent holding up the cup," said Philippoussis, whose recovery from three operations drew inspiration from his father's two bouts of cancer.
It is the fourth consecutive tax ruling against NT Advisors, which also set up the Cup Trust, a charity tax scheme which donated just £55,000 of its £176m income.
"It's like something from another planet," said the Borussia keeper Roman Weidenfeller, who was nursing a painful rib-injury after coming together with Mario Gómez and could barely hold up the cup after the final whistle.
Bobby Moore held up the cup, and, as it was passed from player to player, each one's name was chanted fervently; but it was when Alf Ramsey raised the cup gingerly aloft, as though still not quite convinced that it was real, that the cheers became pure delirium, the delight pure ecstasy.
I'd been dreaming about winning that World Championship from the time I was eight years old, and all the way through that championship I could see myself lifting up the cup, but I never fully believed it until I potted the brown.
