10 biggest 'What If' moments in football history

Think of the number of things we would want to see in a parallel universe. What if Ayrton Senna hadn't died on that fateful day at Imola? What if Herschelle Gibbs hadn't dropped that catch off Steve Waugh? What if Glen Mills, the coach of Usain Bolt, hadn't complied to his protege's wish of running a 100m race for the first time in his professional career in 2007? What if India wins the FIFA World Cup a few decades from now?The possibilities are endless; the scenarios are limitless. But on a few occasions, there have been instances that almost bordered on being epochal; that almost changed life as we know it today. Naturally, football has been no stranger to these.So, let’s run down the ten biggest 'what if' moments in the history of the beautiful game. Moments we would surely want to see in the aforementioned parallel universe. 

#10 What if Zlatan Ibrahimovic \"did do auditions\"?

Zlatan doesn’t do auditions

A popular story to kick things off. Arsene Wenger and his high profile bloopers in the transfer market have been well documented, with Anthony Martial being the latest one. However, none would hurt more than his failure to capture a young Zlatan Ibrahimovic. 

The Rosengard native was a hard-nosed lad even as a youngster, and not just figuratively. However, his ego was stung when the eternal idealist, Wenger, asked him to take a trial at Highbury as an 18-year-old instead of signing him then and there. Wenger had messed with the wrong chap. To quote Ibrahimovic himself, “I thought ‘you either know me or you don’t, and if you don’t know me, you don’t want me’”. Succinctly put.

Now, think of a world where Ibrahimovic could have linked with Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires pulling the strings just behind. Think of the feisty North London Derbies we could have seen. Think of Arsenal vs Barcelona in the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final with Ibrahimovic leading the line for the Gunners. Think of possibly the greatest number 9 the Premier League never had. 

If only he had done the auditions.