It has been called that for ages here in Sweden and abroad. For some reason it became a game everyone who was around then remembered and made a reference to.
Of the Saturday games shown abroad from the english league this one remained in the memory of a lot of people from people that watched it on tv to journalists.
This is the thing with some of you football fans that you have no respect for the game and other clubs and are so completely soaked up by who you support that you cannot even listen to other fans and actually learn something.
If you had googled the game it would have actually come up as "the greatest game ever" but of course with a question marks cause that was the view of the people back then and still to this day many still consider it the best game ever from the english league.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Utd-3-West-Brom-5-Is-greatest-game-ever.html
I know what you're gonna say about a link to DM but that's just an example and the reason for the article is that the game just stuck in a lot of peoples minds all over Europe and of course in England as well.
It is a sorry state of affairs when football fans of today cannot look outside of their own little insecure box and just take it for what it is, a sentiment shared from way back when a game happened to entertain a lot of people and create a long lasting memory which was why swedish tv showed it in 2009 when
they celebrated 40 years of a show called "Tipsextra" who showed live games from England since 1969 and Wolverhampton-Sunderland 1-0 was the first of those games.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/19.../sunderland-association-football-club/584470/