Greatest goal ever

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 :)

youtubes obviously welcome

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

the best goal ever

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.

Yeah do a proper poll, limited nominations I think.

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.

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

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

my fucking shitting mind is blown

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

no but it is now :D

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?

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.

post it!

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

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.

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

Why's anyone even bothering to debate?

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

because di canio's volley was better!

(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

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

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

self proclaimed football morbs.

heavy mantle imo

look, the video title even says so:

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

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

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)

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

jabba that's awesome

more info pls, if nominating!

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

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.

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

(xp)

Archie Gemmill REPRESENT

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

happy with zamora let's leave it at that

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

with a dedicated football thread and everything.

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

NOW YOU'RE TALKING

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any John Barnes itt yet?

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

do it!

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

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

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

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

vazques ribona, obviously

swap s and z there, also obviously

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

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

na i slagged it earlier!

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

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

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

^ john barnes v brazil

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

^ gerrard v middlesborough

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have we had that Saudi Arabia goal?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

He is still with us.

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'.

They both are, actually.

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

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.

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

xpost

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

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

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.

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

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

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

this one ain't bad

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

also HAPPY ILF DAY EVERYONE

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

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

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

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

^ 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