A list-minute winner is one of the best feelings you can experience in football whether you are a player, manager or fan.
When you were 2-1 down on 90 minutes and go on to snatch the three points with two goals in stoppage time? You can definitely be forgiven for losing the run of yourself.
That was the scenario at Tannadice yesterday as Dundee United launched a late, late comeback to overcome a Hibs side who had looked good value for the win they thought they were about to take back to the capital.
But a Joe Newell sending off for two yellows with five minutes to play changed things. Luca Stephenson then hit the equaliser on 92 minutes and a Josef Bursik mistake allowed Meshack Ubochioma in for the winner.
Cue absolute bedlam in the stands, on the pitch and in the dugouts with hugely contrasting emotions for managers Jim Goodwin and David Gray.
Goodwin left red-faced after Dundee United celebrations
As his players celebrated, Goodwin sprinted onto the pitch to get involved as emotion took over. But as he was about to greet them, he slipped and landed on the turf.
The Irishman was able to have a good laugh at himself post-match and admits he got “caught up in the moment.”
And he fully expects to be doing the rounds on social media today – and even made into a meme.
“I can guess what the meme is going to be tomorrow,” laughed Goodwin. “I don’t help myself. I got caught up in the moment.
“Scoring a winner as late as that, the excitement is there for all to see. I went running on to celebrate with Meshack. He saw me coming and started running away. I ended up on my a**e. It’s a good one for people online and on social media, no doubt!”
Supporters spilled onto the pitch amid the celebrations, and the manager added: “We don’t want to encourage our supporters to come on the park. But we understand there’s a level of emotion involved in it.
“You don’t get too many moments like that as a professional player.”
Meshack Ubochioma flips Dundee United script with Hibs winner
Ubochioma had come on as a sub and showed great composure to lift the ball over Bursik to claim the winner. The chance had been presented to him, but he still needed to stay calm and that he did.
However, Goodwin admits he had planned to read the player the riot act after a poor display until that moment.
He laughed: “It’s just as well it went in – because I had other things I wanted to say to him at the end of the game.
“I thought he was Hibs’ best player for about ten minutes! But he came good at the end.”