One of those present had, to his eternal shame, spent the previous afternoon watching Michael J Fox travelling back and forth through time in a re-run of the film 'Back to the Future 2'.

Now, I'm not sure whether it was the effects of the Stella starting to be felt or the rain outside just making everyone pine to be somewhere else – even if it was the 1955 populated by Fox's character Marty McFly – but soon talk had turned to what fun it would be to travel through time.

I know what you're thinking, dear reader, we really should
get out more – or should that
be stay in? – and take up pursuits that don't revolve around
mind-altering products containing hops, barley, maize and water.

Nevertheless, 30 seconds after failing to agree where the preferred destination of choice in the DeLorean should be, the discussion moved on to football. And this was where the debate really began in earnest, thanks to the question: 'If you could change one result in history, what would it be?'

As a variety of clubs were represented in this particular pub group, all manner of answers were soon being offered.

Most were obvious, such as the Halifax Town fan who was adamant that had the Shaymen won the Conference play-off final of 2006 rather than lost in extra-time then the club would now – like the victors that day at the Walkers Stadium, Hereford United – be in League One as oppose to the Unibond First Division North.

Similar sentiments came from a couple of Leeds fans, though they could not decide which result had been more damaging. One plumped for a 1-1 draw at home to Manchester United in March 2001 when Wes Brown's own goal was wrongly ruled out for offside.

Had Leeds claimed three points rather than one that afternoon, they would have qualified for the Champions League ahead of Liverpool come the end of the season and, so the argument went, avoided the financial implosion that now sees United in the third tier.

The other United fan felt the
4-3 home defeat to Newcastle the following Christmas – after they had led Bobby Robson's side 3-1 – had been the catalyst for a slide in results that saw the Elland Road club slip from the top of the Premier League on January 1 to eventually miss out on the Champions League for a second successive season.

Other answers were, however, less obvious with a Bradford City fan, for instance, wishing one of his favourite memories in 25 years of visiting Valley Parade had never actually happened.

Had Bradford lost to Liverpool on the final day of the 1999-2000 season, he argued, then the club would have been relegated and the 'six weeks of madness' that saw Benito Carbone, David Hopkin, Stan Collymore et al arrive on big wages would never have happened. And, the by now depressed Bantam reckoned, his club would not now be in what used to be known as the Fourth Division.

It was a compelling argument, as was the lone voice from Burnley's suggestion that if he could go back in time to alter anything in football it would be not be a result, but a law change. He felt the abolition of the 'maximum wage' had brought about the Clarets' decline with the Lancashire club, who reached the European Cup quarter-finals in 1961, suddenly unable to compete with the big city teams.

Clearly, the boundaries of possibility were now being stretched beyond breaking point and time was mercifully called soon after on our increasingly surreal musings – much to the relief of those sitting within earshot.

Is there one result you would change in football history?

E-mail your thoughts to yp.sport@ypn.co.uk and tell us all about it.