ALIVE, ALIVE GLOW

JASON Sherlock invaded 1995 with blowtorch charisma as his weapon of choice, a magnetic one-man special forces unit scorching the Irish earth and seizing dominion over a summer.

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A teenage, sky-blue uniformed shock-wave, Jayo hurtled into the national consciousness behind a signature thunderclap. All of 30 years on, that sonic boom, boom, boom remains vivid.

A line from an Argentine TV commentator after Diego Maradona’s 1986 World Cup masterclass against England would have needed no explanation to a palpitating Hill 16 nine years later: “Cosmic kite, what planet did you come from?”