Poll of the Season Part 2: The Eighties

Tony Morley 80/81 VILLA v Everton
Cyrille Regis 81/82 WBA v Norwich
Kenny Dalglish 82/83 SCOTLAND v Belgium (skip to 1.10 in the video, his second of the match)
Danny Wallace 83/84 SOUTHAMPTON v Liverpool (the first goal)
Graham Sharp 84/85 Graham Sharp EVERTON v Liverpool
Bryan Robson 85/86 ENGLAND v Israel (skip to 1.20)
Keith Houchen 86/87 COVENTRY v Spurs
John Aldridge 87/88 LIVERPOOL v Notts Forest (skip to 0.30)
John Aldridge 88/89 LIVERPOOL v Everton
Ian Wright 89/90 CRYSTAL PALACE v Man Utd (skip to about 4.30)

This didn't go up already, did it?

whelan vs ussr, and yr motd can gtf

Morley - nice counterattack, probably favourite genre in fact, though the terrible pitch and bustling running detracts from the majesty a bit. It's not like the Russian effort v Netherlands in 2008, which is a kind of gold standard for me.

The Eisensteinian jump-cutting at the start is disorientating too.

Regis - more camera trickery, but there's no detracting from this 'un. A veritable bazowitzooka.

Dalglish - crikey, he was a bit good. I'd've been as happy watching the first goal actually.

Wallace - sweet strike. Reminiscent of that Rooney goal THAT time.

Not so nice to see the fences though.

Sharp - yeah great, but what is he doing shooting from there?

Robson - this must have been the year of the blackout then?

Houchen - gets better on repeat viewings. Perfect header, even if not actually that hard. Extra points for the occasion.

Aldridge (1) - fine goal, but not actually that amazing is it?

Aldridge (2) - looks good, but hard to tell when the video is compiled entirely from rejected footage from weird angles. I do remember thinking Stuart McCall's strike was incredible at the time though, glad to see it stands up.

Wright - can't see this on my phone unfortunately.

morley, good hit but dribble nbd besides its speed, defender begged him inside
regis, control & bosh, meh
dalglish, aye pure class
wallace, p good, probably more exotic then
sharp, satisfying
robson, perfect execution but training ground stuff
houchen, proper diving header in a cup final is unfuckwithable
aldridge, i'm not the type to have a sherman over a good team goal unless its ott
aldridge, eh why is this even here
wright, superb

winner houchen from a fairly crap selection

70s > 80s judging by this

yeah by miles

Wright - assuming it's the first, but both v good. What a pity they couldn't hold on.

Went with Houchen too, slightly ahead of Sharp.

I reckon if you compiled a top ten from the 86 World Cup they would all be better than these

hoddle scored ten better goals than this in the 80's

Zounds! That Whelan goal! It's nearly the best goal from that tourney.

Was between Regis and Sharp for me. Regis gets it tho.

hoddle scored ten better goals than this in the 80's

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy gets it

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

83-84, suspect Wallace got the nod for novelty value as suggested above but this still melts my mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS3FvKdYsv0

you can call this waste defending if you like I dgaf

did anyone else watch all the goals on the 85-86 clip? there's some definitive perfunctoriness in there (tho no more so than eg Aldridge's cup final goal) but I'd've voted for Stapleton on the basis of Strachan's pass alone

Much weirdness in that 85/86 clip: the state of the Vicarage Road pitch; the City Ground having the stanchion-things on top of the goal; a huge advert for Yamaha Clavinovas at the Israel-England game (why?!); Johnny Metgod's free kick sailing straight through the keeper.

The guy posting it says that was the year of the blackout, right enough.

dalglish

terrible list

whelan vs ussr, and yr motd can gtf

love this goal but he did shin it

The way Hoddle beats the keeper in that second clip!

can't believe ismael hadn't known about whelan's goal

nor ever youtubed hoddle highlights

letiss was, essentially, the unmotivated hoddle, but without the pace and not quite as two-footed

I'm pretty sure I'd seen it before, but scrubbed it from my memory for sheer implausibility.

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cheers for this btw ismael

No problem. I was bored on the train one day when I had the flash of insight that it'd work if you separated poll options and formatting. I felt like Archimedes.

Just seen this thread - heading back to work now, but will vote later, two quick things:

Interesting thing to note about the Houchen goal- it happened in Extra Time in the FA Cup final.
Is this the famous diving header? If so, I think it was in the first ten minutes of the match. Either it happened first and then Clive Allen equalised, or vice versa, but I think there were two early goals. The extra time winner was a Gary Mabbutt own goal.

MoTD still owned the rights to show highlights, right?
Not all the time. From 1988 to the start of the Premier League in 1992, ITV had all the highlights and live league games, BBC just had the FA Cup. So their choice of GOTS was severely limited.

Right, seen them now. I remember being amazed by the Danny Wallace one at the time. The Houchen header is great, but not quite as great as I misremembered it. I've gone for Wright, as much for the circumstances as the execution.

Take a look at the Guardian's best goals of the season just past and marvel at the leap the game has made in just two decades.

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i'll find the 90s one tomorrow.