I know it’s hard to allocate specific monetary values but, considering Saints are rarely expected to get anything at Old Trafford, the following were valuable consequences of that goal:
Winning a game late on
Winning at Old Trafford
The look on van Gaal’s face
The home fans booing their team and/or manager
Similarly, it is hard to attribute a single game to the final league position but, if you’ll allow it on the basis of Saints not being expected to win, then that goal put Saints 6th instead if 7th which does have a monetary benefit and also meant qualification to the Europa League Group Stage and not the qualifying stage which meant not playing competitive games in Malta in July.
Not an exact science, more of a feeling, but that goal was valuable so the phrase is valid. Certainly more so than ‘worth his weight in gold’ which would put Austin at only about £3m. | |
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