The best goals of the year 2012

Hulk smash is my actual chosen style within range

I go for the Kone shin whenever possible

Rúné shin shurely

expect dmac to be snapped up by defending champions weiner neustadt any day now

ur a bunch of fuckin rotters i'm getting someone to video my next ucd game

You'll be the 6'4" big-nosed guy with the ponytail, right?

I SCORED A GOAL FFS

turns out i dont really have a lot to say about these

my personal fave is alessandrini at 58 jumping out of nowhere like YEAH BITCH

di maria 55 reminiscent of jon harley all time golazo only without the crucial satisfaction of the pre-cunt run up

wtf was that some other tal ben haim btw

Yeah the Alessandrini one is a dilly

It's the Talk Ben Haim who plays for Hapoel.

Tal is referred to in UEFA reports as Tal Ben-Haim II

well that's a relief, one less underachiever at loftus rd to worry about

Veselenovic #86, Agyemang-Badu #70 or so both worthy of second looks I think.

disappointing the new pope went for Francis I

as great as it is a lot of the alessandrini's appeal is probably down to the camera angle tbh, see that high up at the nou camp or whl or wherever as part of a bigger picture and ur likely somewhat robbed of its essential jack-in-the-box glee

Veselenovic #86

oh yeah this one wtf did he do there exactly

disappointing the new pope went for Francis I

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haha yeah why don't they do that

you may now address me as... pope ronaldinho vii

The break just after in Bakambu 83 is perfect

You don't want perfection though imo, you want a goal you can't see coming. Zlatan is king of these.

veselinovic is the one i came here to post. very smoothly done by veselinovic. has no right to stick that in.

sorry.

would like to see the bastos free kick again, technique seemed v unusual.

that hassli one needed andy gray

bastos fk definitely a goodun, he had a few decent cunts last year

3, 2, 1,

"a few decent cunts" - starring michel bastos

the music and the lack of replays really makes this like having goal after goal rammed into your face

yep, i thought for the first few i'd want replays but no it keeps you on your toes

belhanda!

i didn't know amanda played for brazil - jesus, i only saw her this week.

proto nevillegasm in the oscar goal at 8.50

i've scored that allesandrini goal too btw gfy

that oscar goal is my fave epl one tbh

like all of these bicycle kicks are dangerous play

that last sideways shuffle from neymar at #32 is something

34, sorry

he shuffled into the next goal, special talent imo

that's that done - now what?

idk i'm watching em again

jo has some cheek running off celebrating after #17

Oscar goal was CL, you wouldn't get anything that sublime in the epl. Maybe from Suarez.

For two more months, sob

best commentary is #78 obv

who's this kid meza at 73

yamada at 69 is the one tho, callin it

belhanda is the best. can't remember what number tho.

no 56, i had it down when i started thread above but i've changed my mind

concur that trying to plough through this whole thing and then pick a fav is completely numbing. On a third viewing, and my #1 is changing every 3 or 4 goals right now. Jozy Altidore at 70 is a fucking doozy, he really makes a mug of that second defender

actually that's 71, soz

I know what you mean WD, I'm watching that YouTube while trying to compile a Miles Davis ballot by skipping through spotify, and it's basically the same thing. I feel like I'm single-handedly proving that modern life = no room for contemplation.

There was none of this at the White Horse Final, they had two goals and only Abide With Me to sing, and they were happy.

Gotta try not to gripe though, most def. would not trade these enlightened times w/ youtube, spotify and the like for the days when I only owned Up The Bracket, Enema of the State and the 8 Mile OST on CD and my footy highlights came from my VHS copies of Gary Lineker World Cup 11 and Aston Villa - '97-'98 in review. These are the days of miracle and wonder, my friend.

ok, just saw them all again. mealla (#2) the best one. just...how. why.

Video didn't include this so it's invalid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWWefU5L30Q

oofters, touch of the PES about that

It's a fair cop; that's up there behind Ibby's imo

Yeah, definitely a stunner. Like Ibra's bicycle kick, it has that element of joyful spontaneity about it. Dunno how I feel about it as goal of the season tho. Rare as a hen's tooth and clearly a wonderful physical feat, but perhaps lacking a little of the wtf magic of some of those others? idk. not so open to that criticism as ur average bifter from the halfway line, which just happens too often to be worth anything more than a shrug these days, but i don't think it beats some of the higher-ups on that other vid

would it effortlessly sum up the spirit of ILF if I said my prevailing thought (esp in the first half of the vid) was that there are a lot of crappy keepers out there

WD otm tho, this is still a numbing watch... starts feeling a bit trippy after a while. when you see this many at this rate you (or I) start to break them down into genres (long range cuntings/ridic pinpoint multiple passing moves/unrepeatable circus tricks) and it seems kinda off to try and compare one type to another. this prolly says more about me tho

Feeling that. Also, you look for ever-flimsier excuses to discount them:

• keeper off line →easy
• went in middle of goal →shank
• hit with leading foot →aesthetically displeasing
• scored in friendly →actually shite

yeah it's like what I imagine handling hopelessly oversubscribed job applications to be like, where you end up shitcanning candidates on the basis of a displeasing signature

Goal of the season contender from Ian Morris who drags Bohemians back into game with extraordinary strike from 40+ yards pic.twitter.com/0SQtqIUuqp

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