Mert Gunok’s wonder save keeps Turkish hearts pounding into the last 8

July 3 – It was one of those defining moments that will go down in the annals of European football.

When Turkish keeper Mert Gunok flung himself across goal to prevent Austria’s Christoph Baumgartner taking their pulsating last-16 tie at Euro 2024 into extra time by miraculously keeping out his downward header, those of a certain age immediately recalled something similarly spectacular over half a century ago.

Ever since England’s Gordon Banks defied Pele in the 1970 World Cup,