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half thinking about this being a nomination thread for above, in the vein of the greatest tv shows and greatest movies threads (not the knockout format used for foods/canon etc).

But y'know, all the others seem like a lot of work, and a lot to live up to, so i'm not committing myself or anything :)

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago)

youtubes obviously welcome

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:03 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2BFWtCBdGY

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:03 (fourteen years ago)

the best goal ever

Matt DC, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:04 (fourteen years ago)

Go for it Darragh, but keep noms limited to five or ten each - the dance music polls are going very wrong in this regard.

Will wrack(?) brains etc.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:08 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah do a proper poll, limited nominations I think.

Matt DC, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:14 (fourteen years ago)

Matt- I did see that other thread but tbh it didn't seem to fit the dedicated purpose of a nomination thread tbf.

IK- i bow to your experience in these things, and yeah i hadn't forseen a huge amount of individual nominations but tbh i've got a bit of time during the weeks this next while so i'm going to let it run and see how it goes.

comedy nominations such as lj's will be weighed up before acceptance however.

blurbs would be good with nominations.

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:15 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSarLt2hSzo

One of the greatest examples of vision allied to execution that has graced a football pitch.

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:19 (fourteen years ago)

my fucking shitting mind is blown

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:20 (fourteen years ago)

lj is this in retaliation for your 'i'm drinking everything once' thread?

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago)

no but it is now :D

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago)

5 nominations each, i think. should concentrate the mind, and it seems like plenty? (given that there'll be loads of duplicates?). then the usual ballot of the list produced and countdown of the top 50 etc?

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago)

That Bergkamp goal is probably my favourite ever. I think because with almost all goals, no matter how brilliant, they are always imaginable. I'll be watching on TV and yell "shoot" even if it's from some improbable distance or urge someone to hit a volley off a spinning ball even though the odds of getting it on target are massively against. With that Bergamp goal however, I was watching the match and it literally never for one second crossed my mind that he would do that in that way. Incredible!

Plus even if it's really obvious the van Basten Euro '88 Final goal has some of that quality also.

pandemic, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:26 (fourteen years ago)

post it!

tho if you want to take time to think it over that's cool too :)

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:27 (fourteen years ago)

and yeah, the brevity of the bergkamp goal is part of what makes it so stunning- "oh look i've done this" and every single person watching it for the first time reaches for the rewind button.

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:28 (fourteen years ago)

terry venables didn't even give bergkamp's goal Goal Of The Day on ITV's Premiership show

that honour went to chris marsden vs ipswich

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago)

Why's anyone even bothering to debate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcIR6ftJuk

ithappens, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago)

because di canio's volley was better!

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:31 (fourteen years ago)

(tho that was from a sinclair assist tbf)

scholes goal that weekend one fo the greats too, but not worthy of this thread i don't think.

paul breitner in the 74 (?) world cup is hovering around the edges of my consciousness, as are a couple of the team goals from the dutch in that tournament

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:34 (fourteen years ago)

glenn hoddle and matt le tiss will get one spot each, but my ignorance of other leagues and maybe lack of historical knowledge will let me down. hopefully we'll discover a football morbs along the way to berate us for our MOR picks and broaden our horizons

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago)

that'll be me. but after i've had lunch

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:39 (fourteen years ago)

self proclaimed football morbs.

heavy mantle imo

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:39 (fourteen years ago)

look, the video title even says so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VSOpeYqgSI

jabba hands, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:41 (fourteen years ago)

lets get some the obvious ones out of the way first

maradona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk-kXwjASEE&feature=related

tony yeboah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vmf9UsV23E

take your pick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSsdfe4Z69g

some incredibly half-assed tackles going in here tbh but ill nom. it nevertheless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMnR1QM5Te4

Michael B, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:42 (fourteen years ago)

can't decide if sam's are likely to be all 90's-00's gunner efforts or if he's gonna have a trove of CM4 legends previously looked up for research purposes ready to blow our minds with (that ibrahimovic goal for ajax suffers badly from 'shit opposition' syndrome tho, imo, and will lose its way if nominated for ballot)

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:42 (fourteen years ago)

michael b knows what's up imo, get er lit

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:43 (fourteen years ago)

jabba that's awesome

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:44 (fourteen years ago)

more info pls, if nominating!

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:44 (fourteen years ago)

glenn hoddle and matt le tiss will get one spot each

Hoddle v Watford 1983? Cos that is my 'just say the first answer that comes into your head' response to this qu and has been since I was football-sentient

being a ringmaster's crul (DJ Mencap), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:44 (fourteen years ago)

I'll try to keep up the Scottish football end of things here. Currently I'm thinking:

Archie Gemmill v Holland 1978
Shunsuke Nakamura v Rangers 2008

and some other obvious candidates (James McFadden v France, David Narey v Brazil, John Hartson v Liverpool) which, while undoubtedly favourites of mine, aren't really Best Goal Ever candidates.

I'll get back to you when I get home from work and have a wee think.

ailsa, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:45 (fourteen years ago)

the turn and chip? yeah, i'd not be as certain that's my #1 as you are, but it's up there on merit, definitely

hoping against hope that van der vaart is the closest we've come in a long time to that kind of firepower in midfield, btw

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:46 (fourteen years ago)

(xp)

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:46 (fourteen years ago)

Archie Gemmill REPRESENT

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:46 (fourteen years ago)

sorry mine was mick channon for southampton vs liverpool in 1982....his last goal for the club iirc

jabba hands, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago)

i'll have to narrow down an irish goal in my 5 too, because fuckit local flavour etc.

whelan vs russians, houghton vs italians would be standouts but houghton's prob not in 'greatest goal ever' stakes

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago)

xp properly awesome goal, the kind of thing i'd be hoping for from this thread tbh

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:48 (fourteen years ago)

think my noms might go along the lines of - fav irish goal, fav spurs goal, fav long range, fav pure skills, random pick - or suchlike, just to make it easier to pick.

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:52 (fourteen years ago)

remember this, darragh? 2:27 - 2:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdWVc8j4P44

Michael B, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago)

Never seen jabba's before but o_O what a goal!

Gravel Puzzleworth, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:54 (fourteen years ago)

My dad's favourite goal ever is a Billy McNeill header against Vojvodina in 1967 when Celtic were en route to the European Cup Final. I must try and find that somewhere (youtubing time limited at work), but I do refuse to believe that a header will win dis ting.

ailsa, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:55 (fourteen years ago)

i remember that one michael but i'm not even sure it's mcateer's best for ireland, he scored an opener against oh i dunno macedonia or someone that was a peach drive early on in kerr's tenure (pulling all of these facts out of the air tbh)

a header will not win dis ting

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:02 (fourteen years ago)

a header will almost certainly win the partner poll 'Best OG ever' (Frank Sinclair I'm looking at you here bud)

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:03 (fourteen years ago)

this deathly boring thread idea is another great advert for i love football, kudos

happy with zamora let's leave it at that

r|t|c, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:07 (fourteen years ago)

maybe there'll be an 'i love whinging' board some day, eh?

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:08 (fourteen years ago)

with a dedicated football thread and everything.

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:08 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6soG_agvQZc

r|t|c, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:11 (fourteen years ago)

NOW YOU'RE TALKING

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:12 (fourteen years ago)

that bergkamp one... i actually don't like it tbh, it's the only goal i can think of that scares me a bit. it's sinister

r|t|c, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:13 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk9RinZAE1Q

^ Was looking for some Peter Lorimer goal from way back, found this epic Eddie Gray one instead

jesper olsen twins (NickB), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:14 (fourteen years ago)

you're one step away from saying 'commie' there

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:14 (fourteen years ago)

e gray one's good.

peter osgood has to have a youtube thread somewhere

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:15 (fourteen years ago)

bobby charlton's long range drives too boringly inevitable? feel like scholes will suffer the same fate- oh woo another volley from a corner, where's the imagination

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:16 (fourteen years ago)

Quality of opposition? Check.
Team involvement? Check
Individual endeavour? Check
Sweet fnish? Check?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wiPgqG4Ark

ithappens, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:18 (fourteen years ago)

Brilliant individual skill, this time against QPR. Falls down on quality of opposition, of course. The ball would never have reached Maynard if QPR could have defended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCsfGkrqDQk

ithappens, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:20 (fourteen years ago)

first one's class. approve of QC test also.

falls down on barnets tho

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:20 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSwilt4kfFM

and for the commentary alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlBHTyB1R0

Davek (davek_00), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:20 (fourteen years ago)

an ashley cole goal for arsenal against villa a few years back was another beautiful team move

i can't really be in and out of youtube so i'll look later.

xp- good examples of great goals elevated by context too

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

Rod Wallace. This was a sweet one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nzbsdFGl04

ithappens, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:24 (fourteen years ago)

ha yes, that's a good one tho quality of opposition very fucking questionable

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:24 (fourteen years ago)

Haha, did that commentator have an actual orgasm watching the Bergkamp goal?

jesper olsen twins (NickB), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:24 (fourteen years ago)

your boys took a hell of a beating-off?

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:25 (fourteen years ago)

That Rod Wallace goal makes me think of *that* Giggs goal v Gunners 1999

jesper olsen twins (NickB), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:26 (fourteen years ago)

makes me think of david nugent!

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago)

here are Ailsa's goals for the uninitiated:

Gemmill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1axsnMRbbo

Nakamura:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVLXW7-IscQ

(had a wee look for the Billy McNeill one but I can't find it.)

Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago)

i hadn't considered 'that' giggs goal as yet. hmmmm. context again.

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI_LkMj4HI

^ seen it a million times, the hairy lad does great though

jesper olsen twins (NickB), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago)

henrik's goal against rangers in the 5-1 is a thing of majesty, too

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago)

del piero's cried only twice in his adult life- birth of son and at giggs' goal, apparently

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:29 (fourteen years ago)

let's get RECENT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN6zTox-hhk

Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:31 (fourteen years ago)

ahahaha pissing myself @ mortal kombat music over rod wallace goal

r|t|c, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:32 (fourteen years ago)

messi may get his own separate thread, just to fuck off lj

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:34 (fourteen years ago)

surely he deserves two separate threads, maybe three

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:35 (fourteen years ago)

we can take him off of here and rename it 'greatest goal ever apart from those couple dozen by Messi'.

Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago)

thread needs more shit like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnmsERstpHw

and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8dCPT4puo8

just warming up btw

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:43 (fourteen years ago)

oh has this not been done yet?

it's better than bergkamp's. it's like bergkamp 2.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVzzvMEG08

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:50 (fourteen years ago)

I think Bergkamp still has the edge because I can at least understand the mechanics of the Gourcuff goal whereas Bergkamp's is sheer witchcraft, but ey not bad eh.

Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago)

That Messi v Zaragoza was the first time I laughed hysterically at a goal.

The referee was perfect (Chris), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:53 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ZOK3sR9WQ

^ lol Hoddle, amazing touch though

jesper olsen twins (NickB), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:57 (fourteen years ago)

Thanks Merdeyeux. For twinned-with-commentary lolz, James McFadden v France can only be shown if it has Peter Martin-Maguire's insane screaming on Radio Clyde played over the top as that elevates it into classic territory.

I toyed with Larsson's chip over Stefan Klos as well, btw.

ailsa, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:59 (fourteen years ago)

Blah blah poll blah blah but can I just point out that if people nominate in the form of Youtube only then it's impossible to CTRL F and make sure you're not repeating earlier noms?

Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:01 (fourteen years ago)

we require staunch research and careful reading of other contributions to this thread. no apologies.

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:07 (fourteen years ago)

let's get a little more obscure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dQQDK1RKY

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:08 (fourteen years ago)

and on that theme, here's the best world cup goal ever, no argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4IatYSTQU

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:11 (fourteen years ago)

the argument is that maradona vs england is better

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:12 (fourteen years ago)

Y'know what? Justin Fashanu at least deserves a nomination. Pour one out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owCt1dGrK2E

Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:13 (fourteen years ago)

dalian atkinson, was it? 1993 run and chip for villa?

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:15 (fourteen years ago)

fashanu was on crazy bonuses to score, hence shots from anywhere

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:15 (fourteen years ago)

used it in a HR project once, as a classic example of rewarding the wrong type of behaviour iirc

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago)

Did u use a video of that goal as a counter-example?

Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:17 (fourteen years ago)

would have been counterproductive in context of my point tbh. if the lecturer did her research then it would explain the shitty mark though, it's true

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:17 (fourteen years ago)

'i refute it *thus*' kinda thing

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago)

hahaha

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 13:24 (fourteen years ago)

Excuse the derail but I just got a vision of Johnson turning to Berkeley and going "RONG!"

Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago)

Sweet xp even if it's not the best world cup goal ever. However, world cups in Mexico *are* the best world cups.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago)

another thread!

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0eUq-orqLE

Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:42 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3HcdvHbtN4

Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:42 (fourteen years ago)

not feeling pato tbh

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:44 (fourteen years ago)

I thought about putting that last one here but there's only so much masochism a man can undertake

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:44 (fourteen years ago)

best goals against charlton will be my first thread on ILFootie

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago)

best arsenal goals against charlton could genuinely be a thread of its own

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:47 (fourteen years ago)

this deathly boring thread idea is another great advert for i love football, kudos

happy with zamora let's leave it at that

― r|t|c, Monday, 20 September 2010 13:07 (1 hour ago)

this is a lil bit harsh, nothing wrong w/ a thread of great goals but polling it is a bit bargain dvd 'best goals ever' comprised of 90s prem and a few outliers

the idea of a greatest ever goal is kinda absurd so i posted two i rly like that clearly aren't 'the greatest'

Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:47 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDD89Gbo5hw

I WAS THERE

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

well the value was always going to be in this thread tbh, i may not follow through

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI6FzAPyTcY

Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

ok class

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:51 (fourteen years ago)

shd have posted that as the first....

Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:51 (fourteen years ago)

rly!

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:52 (fourteen years ago)

there are a lot of great recent goals w/ crap quality youtube clips

Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago)

seperate thread!

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

i have spelled separate any way i wanted to all day today i feel as glam as a little shampoo model

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

glad you called yourself on that

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago)

u've a fuckin cheek you've clearly spelled cambirdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun incorrectly in ur DN

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago)

kept it faithful to del's original creation tbh

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago)

Can't really participate until I get near a computer that can handle youtubes. I'm not nominating this one, but here (I hope) is one from last night that had Jibe and I simultaneously (I imagine) punching things with frustration then delight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ_3SWjOvEU

Also, is nakh's nomination above van Persie's in-off-the-shin volley at The Valley? Because that saves me a slot if so.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago)

of course it is that goal

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:18 (fourteen years ago)

yeah off the shin fluke, glad u pointed that out!

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:19 (fourteen years ago)

Shin or no, it's still one of the greatest goals of all time.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago)

so proud it happened on the hallowed turf <3

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

wouldn't make le tiss top 10

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago)

wouldn't make steven reid top 3 tbh

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q090EJ6B7Lk

Number None, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago)

love that fat lazy genius

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vp1OvDUGUA

2:30

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Bdie7q3LU

similarly

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago)

fuckit, i'll allow it

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago)

:D

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago)

gotta have that ovechkin falling-wrong-way back-of-stick goal as well in that case

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago)

I wanted to be Bobby Orr as a kid.

dan m, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago)

to b orr not to b orr

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago)

xpost to IK about Jussie goal: that goal did not have me punching anything with delight. With frustration yeah, but not delight. But tbh as a fan of Lyon, I was punching things in frustration basically from the start of the game onwards.
Also, not nominating this but I still like that "goal", especially for Platini's reaction afterwards (quick search shows only shitty youtubes of said goal, sorry, start at 50sec mark and go till you see Platini around the 1:30 mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63mpjgVXnwk&p=CA41A3A72F2CD34A&index=8

Had he scored it today, his goal would have been allowed.

Jibe, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah sorry, I feel your pain.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago)

ah that's different class style

ginola's juggle, juggle, WHAM for newcastle in the UEFA cup is kind of similar in style?

VdV has a few beauties

illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COx3ldRNzWM

breitner 10-19 secs

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

<3 platini. not so much <3 edman, but still:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP7z7SXQnrY

sonderangerbot, Monday, 20 September 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

oh man that goal

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGLffPzKi6g&p=788A6B5F206DE704&playnext=1&index=3

Love this goal, they make it look so easy!

Jibe, Monday, 20 September 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUBXHXY_-9k

1. Diego Maradona
Argentina v Greece, World Cup first round 1994

I was going to pick this anyway just for being so cool, but there's some gorgeous one-touch interplay in almost no space beforehand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCanx-yBPFg

2. Zinedine Zidane
Real Madrid v Bayer Leverkusen, European Cup Final 2002

Jawdropping that he even tried it. Just watch him waiting for it to drop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWujLMH1N8w

3. Fabio Grosso
Italy v Germany, World Cup Semi Final 2006

119th minute of the most beautiful goalless game ever. Talk about stepping up. It's not just about context though - fabulous shot, and some great celebrations. (and even then, the del Piero goal a minute later is still the one that gives me the shivers)

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twx2NHwSH38

4. Alan Shearer
England v Holland, European Championships first round 1996

Jonathan Wilson's The Anatomy of England turned me onto this. Wonderful move dragging the dutch around, and Sheringham's feint is exquisite. If only it wasn't Shearer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG0i0aK8LOs

5. Jared Borgetti
Mexico v Italy, World Cup first round 2002

It's so outrageous you can't believe he meant it, but there's nothing else he could've been attempting here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD80XYD1FvU

5A. Steven Gerrard
Liverpool v West Ham, FA Cup Final 2006

Just about the sweetest strike ever. Cruel on West Ham, but hey.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

a bit rockist but they're all pretty good

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago)

I'm all about the big stage, matey. Guessing you'll have the lo-fi end covered anyway.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

eeh, you've just reminded me - Clint Dempsey v Juventus, 2010

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

yr not gonna get much better than this tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWEmtar6Xz8

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

a few of my favorites

golazo to win the gold cup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGA2W4d5_E

blanco on fake grass w/ gridiron lines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcfBSZbX22E

preki vs brazil 'cos it's the only time usa ever beat them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jYiUwR9t_w

dan m, Monday, 20 September 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago)

here's one from the archives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLueHEhKTc

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

for sheer moment - 3rd goal of this hattrick, I remember my pint going all over the living room - beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro9dA0rKLzw

problem chimp (Porkpie), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

here's the greatest GOTS contest ever in any league - it's a kinda 'how to volley' compendium but don't let that dissuade you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTMY72Lj2Ic

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

that's all in one season, folks

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

i thought this was gonna be about hockey.

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Graphics/Canada/Orr.jpeg

got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago)

Jeez, that Rivaldo hattrick ... to think he's remembered mostly for chasing $ and clutching his face.

Question: I had wanted to put up a great big barrelling header because they're my favourite sort of goal*. Borgetti's is amazing but not exactly of that type. I had been sure Joe Jordan's against Czechoslovakia in 1973 was a classic, but from the 4-second(!) youtube clip, which doesn't even show the goal properly ffs, it doesn't look all that. I've got a memory of seeing him in a b&w photo making a towering leap to head in for Scotland and I thought it was then - what might I be thinking of instead?

* though volleys clean up in the 'most amazing things ever' category tbh

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

Matt Taylor's scored some beauties in his time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvC_NbVPWk

cajunsunday, Monday, 20 September 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

thought about that one although it possibly wasn't the best goal of its MONTH

(best GOTM coming up)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzUyYOCKzcE

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

btw ismael found this looking for 'vieri header'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ufW4aZA0Q

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

oh my, turns out that's as good a headers compilation you'll see, the one at 1:10 makes for a great slo-mo but my favourite is probably the one at 2:48

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

Oh good work - will check that out when I get back onto a faster computer. Til then I'll just have to daydream of Andy Carroll.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago)

i'd never seen that hearts goal before - just chuckled at the showboating at first but it was the only goal of the game?? in the last few minutes?

r|t|c, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago)

pretty sound ploy really - drew the furious defender right out of position

r|t|c, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago)

exactly - and there's something about the cosmic provenance of that leading to a goal which makes it truly inspired

cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago)

haha

"By great good fortune the TV cameras didn't track Tommy for the celebrations which was just as well because he must have run 30 yards up the ash track at Ibrox giving two fingers to the Rangers fans."

r|t|c, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago)

My favorite header... Came only three days after he'd scored a header against AC Milan to win the CL. maybe not the best but it is quite impressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMct3rBJb5k

(again sorry for shitty quality)

Jibe, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago)

prefer his song w/ waddle tbh

acoleuthic, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

lovely header tho

acoleuthic, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

nothing beats sinclair

I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

just 4u ronan here is my fave liverpool goal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TNb57ZNuWQ

acoleuthic, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

porkpie otm, that is one of the great goals for sure.

patrick mbomba (sp?) was one of the purest headers of a football i've ever seen, he'd maybe be worth looking up.

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago)

sorry for quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRbwdVb6vrA

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago)

bow down. i'm not picking any out, except the lob against flowers and the obvious backheel over himself beat three men tapin maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSsdfe4Z69g

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago)

so many great hockey goals are really hard to see

dan m, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago)

and i'm not kidding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNj6VFaLCd0

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago)

<3 (ffwd to 1:30 for the shot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRoNqiiY6Lg&feature=related

dan m, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

haha, OK, that Hearts v Rangers thing <3 <3 <3

I think the Billy McNeill one my dad's always going on about is the one about 1:10 into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMnFrVk1rrM

ailsa, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

Not best ever but C. Ronaldo's header against Roma is pretty memorable just in the way he appears out of nowhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LvkTkA1Dng

Number None, Monday, 20 September 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago)

The best goal I've actually witnessed with my own eyes is the Andy Goal overhead kick at about 4:21 on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyuQpnfoXPA

Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago)

Any John Barnes itt yet?

jesper olsen twins (NickB), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago)

DON'T MENTION HIS NAME WHEN CELTIC ARE PLAYING CALEY THISTLE IN THE CUP TOMORROW KTHANXBYE

ailsa, Monday, 20 September 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

do it!

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XONWAITML4Yom/watch?v=XONWAITML4Y

ailsa, Monday, 20 September 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3GkoWKO56A

ailsa, Monday, 20 September 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago)

i'd imagine it took a lot to curve the industrial steel footballs they used in britain in the 70's this much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ARNPVf7jQ

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sXeSnpNyrs

vazques ribona, obviously

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago)

swap s and z there, also obviously

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago)

um, we're not playing tomorrow, I got all carried away there. Ignore me.

ailsa, Monday, 20 September 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago)

Sorry if somebody already posted. This is def. my fave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgqsaDnsEq8

Werner HerzOMG (admrl), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago)

na i slagged it earlier!

ibra's best is coming up, just for you....

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sdDmiv2SCI

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCyXGiJ-jc

^ john barnes v brazil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrPj4Me4CZ8

^ gerrard v middlesborough

jesper olsen twins (NickB), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago)

this wll never not make me want to hit a football immediately upon watching it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVVSOGLyAcU

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRMtPojA4vE

Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago)

ha you're on some real 'kill the art' kind of trip

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JHSXkD98_k

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 20 September 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUh-NcHi5ug

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbASd5CU3H8&feature=related

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago)

Have we had that Saudi Arabia goal?

Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago)

Ibrahimovic Ajax goal still the best, how dare you suggest that NAC Breda are not a quality team

Awesome Welles (admrl), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 07:17 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQXrMbArqSs&feature=related

Awesome Welles (admrl), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 07:20 (fourteen years ago)

i'd post r carlos' free kick but tbh i feel it's been sullied by the 150341 attempts that ballooned wildly over or wide in teh rest of his carer.

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:21 (fourteen years ago)

I've seen at least two goals where he's smashed in from out wide on or near the byline

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:24 (fourteen years ago)

that's still only 1 goal in every 50113.66 attempts tbf

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:25 (fourteen years ago)

I also saw a counter-counter-factual stat once to the effect that his scoring rate from free-kicks was higher than Beckham's - not that I believed it for a second, I'm just saying there's more than one school of thought here.

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:40 (fourteen years ago)

Now that you raise the issue, the very concept of a free kick expert whose particular skill is 'hitting the ball really hard' is kind of odd, no? It's hardly a remarkable trait among professional footballers.

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:43 (fourteen years ago)

i enjoy those fachts as much as the next person, but let's be real- how does his assist rate stack up with Beckham's from set plays? Because Carlos never did nuthin but sprint and batter it, whereas Beckham was a trajectory machine.

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:43 (fourteen years ago)

He is still with us.

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:44 (fourteen years ago)

Well, this is what I'm getting at- Carlos hit the air tube or w/e that one time, it went around the world, he got the rep, nobody ever pulled him aside and said 'enough's enough with the 'R1, d-pad fwd and holding down the square button to max free kicks, son'.

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:45 (fourteen years ago)

They both are, actually.

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:45 (fourteen years ago)

yeah on an unrelated note i approve the shit out of players going all over the place after their peak- power to them if it keeps the equivalent of a local jenas out of a team somewhere

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago)

The whole thing proved a bit of a dilemma really. Great goal etc, and in principle that justifies everything. Of course there came a point a couple of years later where you realised that no matter how often he tried it it was never going to happen again. The problem then arose a couple years after that when pundits & commentators twigged to the same thing and eg Ron Atkinson starts treating him as a figure of fun. So of course you find yourself willing it to be otherwise - I'm sure that implausible stat was employed by me on many an occasion even though I always knew it had to be bollocks.

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago)

You're just saying that to get rid of Robbie Keane back up to the SPL, aren't you?

xpost

ailsa, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago)

not specifically, ailsa, but i mean if you think it's help then ya sure why not

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:54 (fourteen years ago)

stuff like that really makes me feel like I've lost my moral bearings sometimes wrt footy (xp to self)

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:54 (fourteen years ago)

ha didn't read that before dashing off to lunch.

essentially, it was actually a once-in-a-lifetime goal. i do think his coaches ought to have had a go at him within say a season of trying to emulate it and therefore wasting 80% of all setpieces within 45 yards of goal.

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDCCJxHXKH0
Here's the byline goal for reference. He's never meant it though has he?

Number None, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 13:28 (fourteen years ago)

i waver on that one but i favour that he did- see above discussion on r carlos's attitude to 'having a fackin go'

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

seedorf from the halfway line or near it is in that category

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago)

this one ain't bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqBvNYnAXBw

acoleuthic, Friday, 24 September 2010 07:30 (fourteen years ago)

also HAPPY ILF DAY EVERYONE

acoleuthic, Friday, 24 September 2010 07:30 (fourteen years ago)

Love the commentator's yelling. And great goal too obv

Jibe, Friday, 24 September 2010 12:13 (fourteen years ago)

dunno what has been posted in the 'show all messages' and don't want to spend yet another day of my life watching beautiful goals but i'll nom these five, sorry if they've already come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y-Y56PQlNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdy5fKdLvL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP9t8FI_bTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPNjELcdyUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oHL0am0Q84

a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 September 2010 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjq2xT-tx38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5-ANGlhuM

Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 24 September 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago)

^ making me nostalgic for the MOTD 60's 70's & 80's boxset an ex-future father-in-law cadged off me a week before the relationship went tits-up. i reckon he fucking knew something i didn't tbph

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 September 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago)


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