Jimmy Glass: The Great Escape

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Glass made three appearances for Carlisle. Just three. But the last of those saw the on-loan goalkeeper keep the club in the Football League when he smashed the ball into the Plymouth Argyle net in the fifth minute of stoppage-time on the final day of the 1998/99 season. Probably the greatest goal of all-time, according to the T-shirts. "It wasn't my goal," says Glass. "It was football's goal really." What might seem a simple tale is actually much more. There is his serendipitous arrival, a sense of destiny, and even a narrative arc of redemption to the Jimmy Glass story.

Jimmy Glass is reflecting on something more recent: the day six weeks ago when he returned to Brunton Park for the first time in nearly a decade, and learned that Cumbria has not forgotten him. A sold-out event saw Glass reliving May 8, 1999, when his goal against Plymouth kept Carlisle United in the Football League. It was the last kick of the season, scored by an on-loan goalkeeper. No wonder Carlisle supporters remember. No wonder they were keen to say thank you. The evening ended with a standing ovation. “It was fun to come back,” Glass tells the News & Star from his home in Bournemouth. “It was good to catch up with people I’d not seen for a long time. “I do enjoy coming up. I’ve got such a tight bond with the fans and the town. “I never tire of speaking to Carlisle fans about a moment that’s affected their lives. “They bring their children who weren’t even born. They still enjoy the moment. They’re now living it themselves.”

Jimmy Glass: The Great Escape was filmed partly during that visit to Cumbria in late March. The programme also includes an interview with Eddie Howe, the manager of Premier League club AFC Bournemouth, where Glass, 45, is now a player liaison officer. “He just took the mickey out of me for most of the time they were filming,” laughs Glass. “The guys I work with take the mickey out of the goal. So does Eddie. But he loves the goal. Every person that comes to the club: ‘Do you know who this is? Jimmy Glass!’ “I never really mention the goal. And the running joke at the club is that I’m always talking about it!” Another interviewee was Glass’s manager at Carlisle, Nigel Pearson, who described his former goalkeeper as “different”. Glass’s interpretation?

“Probably the fact I didn’t want to play in goal in training the day before the Plymouth match! I was running around up front. “The character I portrayed to try and give myself confidence - a bossy, loud character - was probably very different to the other characters he had in his squad. “I was trying to raise spirits, probably more for myself. And for a goalkeeper to step into the position Carlisle were in, to put yourself into the melee for three games, takes a certain type of character.”

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