The International Cricket Council this week made the mind-dumbingly stupid, and quite frankly, dangerous decision to change the result of the curtailed 2006 Oval Test between England and Pakistan. The result had been given to England as Pakistan were deemed to have defaulted having refused to continue to play. The ICC have now declared that the record books will show the game as drawn.
The rights and wrongs of that original decision are for debate on a cricket message board, but a precedent has now been set for any team on the wrong end of a result to decide that they do not want to play on and settle for a draw at a later date.
Which leaves me to wonder, if I could change a result which one would I choose to change? Of course, our FA is of much higher integrity than the ICC (joke!) and it is not going to happen, but it does make for a different kind of fantasy football.
My guess is that a lot of Gillingham supporters are going to plump for having injury time and the penalty shoot-out expunged from the record books of 1999, thus leaving us with a famous 2-0 victory over Manchester City in our first-ever Wembley visit.
Not for me, this option. I've held the opinion that once the heartbreak of that monumental day had diminished, and certainly following our successful excursion 12 months later, I believe that the Gods actually did us a favour on that fateful day.
We were not ready as a club for the present-day equivalent of Championship football in 1999-2000. We had a half-built stadium with the Rainham End nearing completion and the Main Stand about to be reduced to rubble before the building of the Medway Stand. One year on we were much better placed and this became the foundation for our five year stay.
The result that I would change would be the 1987 play-off defeat at Swindon Town. Oh, to have been able to walk away from the return leg at the County Ground with Karl Elsey's rocket in our pockets and say, that's it we'll take a draw.
Swindon came back in the second half to score twice and force Gillingham into a play-off replay at Crystal Palace and the rest is history. But I'm sure that had we held on (or in this fantasy game, walked out) a certain chapter in the club's history would have been re-written.
The following season, Tony Cascarino had departed and although the club got off to a sparkling start (this was the season of the 9-1 and 10-0 victories), a 6-0 defeat at Aldershot signalled the end of Sir Keith Peacock's six year reign as manager. No manager has been revered quite like Peacock in my time as a supporter and following his departure we went through a period of instability in management and the reversal of fortunes on the pitch. Two season's later we were relegated into the old Division Four.
There is a nightmare scenario you can play with this form of fantasy football, one where you make the wrong choice to curtail the game. For this I'm going to pick the 1984 FA Cup tie against Brentford. At 3-1 down with only 11 minutes left, it was definitely a game to give up, take the draw and play it again. But in an unforgettable climax Gillingham stormed back to win 5-3 to set up the glorious games against Everton, such is the fickle finger of fate!
The ICC have made an outrageous decision, one that might come back to haunt them and perhaps they, in time, might be turning the course of cricket history.