Also, I remember quite a lot of Italy's matches in the 1982 World Cup - it was one of the most exciting, thrilling, ecstatic few weeks of my life, even though I was only 8.
1986 World Cup - Vasily Rats' 40 yard screamer. Possibly my favourite goal ever.
Other than that, I can vaguely recall Lee Sidwell's hat-trick last weekend for AFC Wimbledon against Walton Casuals. Does that count?
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:48 (twenty years ago) link
i remember about 286 other goals
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:51 (twenty years ago) link
My first TV memory (1981) is the same as Mark C's. Unlike him, though, I didn't, or don't, much like that Italy team.
Rats is a super call.
Rush didn't score a hat-trick in that final: I believe Craig Johnston hit the other.
Actually, a goal I just about remember: Clive Allen's volley past Bobby Mimms, out of nowhere, October 1986.
(If that doesn't bring Mike to thread, nothing will.)
― the pinefox, Friday, 2 May 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link
at my second school, when i wz abt 10, and playing compulsory afternoon football (LaYMoR's league), a guy called N!ch0las Hy4ms kicked off, and the ball went all the way to the goal, and into it, and all the way down a very steep hill into a wood. The goalkeeper wz a famously comical fellow called Anth0ny G!ll, who remembled Beeker from the Muppets, and cared abt nothing in the world, and was at the time swinging on the crossbar, facing away from the game — the ball bounced slowly along the ground right beneath his feet...)
The referee wz a science teachger called Pike or Pyke. He had horsey teeth, and sent AG back for an early shower and detention.
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:09 (twenty years ago) link
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― james (james), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
it was a decisive goal and cost us the game and any chances for advancement, and i remember other guys on the team actually crying. i remember how they looked at me, they were confused about whether to hate me or pity me.
i gave up the position a couple of years later, mainly because i wanted to score.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
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― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 2 May 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link
I remember quite a few of the goals I've seen, but I can't remember what the first one was. Most people remember the spectacular or silly ones (e.g. Nayim against Seaman, Ronaldhino against Seaman, Collymore against Flowers) so I guess ones like that don't count. John Hartson's against Liverpool will stay with me a while though.
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 May 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link
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― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
I remember a slew of goals by Ernie Moss for Chesterfield in the early eighties, and a few from Phil Bonnyman too.
Earliest TV memory of a goal was 1980 cup final, but more vivid was Allen being hacked down by Willie Young.
I also remember my dad letting me listen to Arsenal getting beaten on penalties in a uefa cup final, possibly against Malaga, maybe Anderlecht, I think Graham Rix missed one.
Robsons goal in the 1982 world cup against France too, from Coppell's throw in.
Definitely the Ricky Villa goal.
That awful goal in 1989 *sobs*
The goal that Paul Holland scored (I think against Peterborough) scored for Chesterfield sometime in the mid-90s that was the best goal I've ever seen in real life.
― chris (chris), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:03 (twenty years ago) link
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― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 May 2003 10:35 (twenty years ago) link
It was probably the first Liverpool match I watched, I didn't really get it I don't think.
My favourite goal in terms of actual elation is probably Owen's second in the Cup Final against Arsenal, bearing in mind I've had a pretty lean 13 years or so as a Liverpool fan.
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 3 May 2003 14:09 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Saturday, 3 May 2003 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
I remember Tommy Hutchinson's (?) own goal (in off his back?) for/against Coventry in the 'proper' final which led to Ricky Villa's replay Memento Goalie ('remember that you must score').
I remember one of my own own goals as well, a screaming 30 yard aerial bender which had even me nonplussed.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 3 May 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 3 May 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 May 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 3 May 2003 19:03 (twenty years ago) link
sir les fucking ruled
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link
in terms of greatest elation, well, there are a few.
richie parsons equalising for bray wanderers against sligo (2-2 from 2-0 down: bray were the team most lacking in creativity in the history of football that season, so this isn't as unremarkable as it sounds!)
robbie keane, ireland v germany in the summer.eric cantona, v liverpool in the FA cup final, 1995 i think.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
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