Watching a great game or important event on TV or reading about it in the papers - all well and good, but not quite the same as being there, is it? What if you had a time machine and could set it to take you back to any point in football history? Which matches, which moments, would you choose - so you could proudly say, years later, "I was there"? Here's our list; let us know which magic moments you'd love to have witnessed in the flesh.

50. Jose Mourinho announces he is “a special one,” 2004

“I’m a European champion… I’m a special one,” announced a confident young Portuguese manager at his press unveiling, inadvertently providing the media with his nickname. And it proved accurate enough.

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49. Tottenham 6 Reading 4, 2007

One of those classics that the Christmas fixture list seems to create, with four goals for Dimitar Berbatov at White Hart Lane on December 29. Reading were even in the lead with fifteen minutes left.

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48. Wayne Rooney scores a hat trick on his Manchester United debut, 2004

Talk about a dream debut. The 18-year-old’s first appearance since limping out of Euro 2004 was an immense display of attacking football that brought him his first senior hat-trick as United beat Fenerbahce 6-2.

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47. Chesterfield 3 Middlesbrough 3, 1997

A sensational game, tarnished by the inexplicable decision of David Elleray, the referee, to disallow a “goal” that would surely have sent the mid-table side from the third tier into the FA Cup Final against their Premier League opponents. Chesterfield went 2-0 up but Middlesbrough pulled level and took the lead in extra time, but the underdogs equalised in the 119th minute to earn a replay, which they lost.

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