Wales' Ryan Giggs and Rob Earnshaw celebrate

That photo has found itself on the front page of the Korean Herald, the country's only all-English daily, as they tried to explain the pure enjoyment of the game that has engulfed their mainly baseball-playing nation.

Now that picture has been used to help launch the World Cup itself as Japan and South Korea brace themselves for the start.

Earnshaw - currently negotiating a new long-term contract with four years of his current deal still to go - has figured in all the hype.

There, in all its glory, was the photo of Earnshaw's double somersault - with a passionate Cardiff crowd going mad in the background and Giggs watching in admiration.

Apparently some of the Korean players were equally enthused and have started to copy the method of celebration.

The Welsh flag last flew in a World Cup back in 1958, the heroes of the past - Ian Rush, Dean Saunders, Neville Southall, Kevin Ratcliffe, Terry Yorath, John Toshack - have never graced its final stages.

But young Earnshaw can now say that he has, in all his tumbling glory.

Earnshaw is banned from doing the somersault celebration by Cardiff in case he does himself an injury, but got away with it that night in May at the Millennium.

After realising that he's become front page news in Korea ahead of the world's finest, he'll reckon it was a gamble worth taking.