Poll of the Season Part 1: The Seventies

Haven't even watched the others yet but i'll probably be voting for Ernie Hunt

Amazing novelty goal. Nice manly celebration too.

a goal so good the bastards had to change the rules

Radford - a fine strike alright, but it's really about the occasion.

Osgood - meh, lots of time to set himself and it's not even that far out.

Mullery - much better than it looks, the element of surprise is all.

Walsh - crikey, pick that fucker out! Strength, vision, precision.

Francis - nice enough counterattack, but not actually that fast or requiring amazing movement or anything.

Where's 69/70 btw? Slack ringmastering imo.

McDermott - that's a beauty, sweeet disguise on the chip.

Gemmill - more theatre than Francis, bonus point for managing that on a pitch like that.

Kennedy - jeez, what a touch! And rounding the keeper bonus too.

Fashanu - hell yeah, can't fault that for anything.

voted Walsh

Where's 69/70 btw? Slack ringmastering imo.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 26 March 2012 19:55 (13 minutes ago)

These are all from MOTD and as far as I can tell, there was none before 70/71. Feel free to correct me.

Voted Fashanu.

Gonna do all 4 decades and then a final four type situation to find the best goal evah in televised english football

Unorthodox including anything before 1992, but it might just work.

mullery goal is the best of the lot for me

What a hidden gem Ronnie Radford goal is. I'm surprised the BBC haven't shown that one since 1973. To me it really captures a certain something....call it the....I don't know, 'magic' of the FA Cup.

it was between walsh and fashnu for me. went for walsh because it combines so many good things. the chest control, the run, the turn inside and the finish.

Walsh's seems so ~modern~ in its greatness. Francis' and Gemmill's quite the opposite, I guess it was a novelty to be able to string a few passes together when all English football was played in mud baths.

Seem to remember the Mickey Walsh goal was always singled out as a particularly special one

Though nowadays I don't suppose many people had heard of it or seen it

i always think of that Ernie Hunt goal as being Willie Carr's, probably cos of Wolves Legernd bias

I think that's what's called an assist in modern parlance

Fashunu cos iirc it includes pwning of Hansen

Seem to remember the Mickey Walsh goal was always singled out as a particularly special one

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:21 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah iirc it was my favourite goal on the 101 Great Goals VHS, although in my head it was from near the touchline so r'ing c maybe not my strong point

watching again the Fashanu goal pwns it in terms of technique and is 'more unstoppable' as it were so I voted for it

refuse to believe there weren't better goals than Osgood's in that season wtf

Yeah when Merdeyeux said 'Walsh's seems so ~modern~ in its greatness' it got me wondering whether there wouldve been goals then that look amazing to us, but were just 'meh' to seventies dudes. The alternative, that old footy was actually rubbish, is not a truth I feel able to take on board right now.

Radford vs Walsh vs Fashanu

Wrong Archie Gemmill goal from 1978 imo (or do international ones not count?)

In general, the winning goal has occurred for an English side within the domestic English league or cups, although these are not particular rules—Kenny Dalglish's goal in 1982–83 for Scotland being an example. The goal usually comes from competitions to which the BBC holds television rights and which are shown under the MoTD banner—at present Premier League highlights—although some have come from the equivalent Sportscene broadcast by BBC Scotland. Due to the lack of BBC European club football coverage, held predominantly by ITV and Sky, no goal of the season has ever been scored in European club competition despite many contenders.

refuse to believe there weren't better goals than Osgood's in that season wtf
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The alternative, that old footy was actually rubbish, is not a truth I feel able to take on board right now.

Far less football was televised then so there was a much smaller from which to pick the winner.

That's a point. There was a piece in WSC recently identifying the last goal to be scored without being filmed. It happened about 1990, as I recall.

Last top flight goal?

Romario, on the beach

I think ITV started showing all of the Saturday games' goals at half-time during Sunday's The Match* in the 88-89 season. Before that I think a good 70% or more of goals were never filmed.

*It was called that, wasn't it? Not 'The Big Match' - that was earlier in the 80s?

The last unrecorded top-flight game was Sheffield Wednesday v Manchester City, New Year's Day 1990. David Hirst scored the first in a 2-0 win than had to go in goal when Kevin Pressman got injured. It doesn't say who scored the second, but it appears to have the honour.

Though there is still the odd cock-up. A power failure in a TV truck obliterated virtually all footage of Vladimir Smicer's goal for Liverpool in a 2-2 draw at Man City in 2003. The only surviving clip is an unwatchable grainy long-range shot more suited to the X-files.

There's also David James playing up front for Man City, which I don't believe ever happened because how come it never gets repeated?

"An early start caught out our cameraman," says Jim Rosenthal of the Hirst debacle. NB that two cameras per game became the norm in 1990.

Think David James won a penalty in that match which Robbie Fowler missed.
xp

mullery. by far the most demanding technically

fashanu wins the kraaxti award

78 must have been a p dodge year if gemmill won purely just for running like an absolute bastard. rule britannia

saying all that francis' is iconic in its simplicity imo but perhaps i'm biased

Mullery's gets better with every viewing, I may have voted too hastily.

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