The best goals of the year 2012

Yeah I know, but it's a quiet weekend,

So I'm gonna watch this, and invite you to do likewise and y'know just talk about great goals. Positivity and all that.

Favourite so far is the one I've just seen from Belhanda (no. 56)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIpv5NDlCWI

Tal Ben Haim!

oh the Ben Arfa goal was SO the Premiership GOTS, how the fuck could anyone say otherwise. said so at the time too

it's a straight line

henry scored a few in north london derbies similar, people raving about them, he's just run to the goal and scored, smh defenders

tell you what tho, how the fuck does neymar keep his legs on

the backheel turn, dude, then the fact he makes a straight line out of it with a perfectly-weighted through-ball to himself, absolute brilliance

best goal? probably one of the neymars yeah, though that goal at number 2 was flat-out ridiculous

ibra overrated

lot of time for the sochaux and dortmund team goals too

yeah otm

guy who takes it down on thigh amd backheels in in slo-mo for me

Yeah, Jackson Martinez at 30 is astonishing.

Marco Antonio goal is kinda Di Canio vs Wimbledon Parte The Seconde and needs a mention here

look we need to get this down to a pollable amount tbrr, it's saturday and the washing is already out

no bicycle kicks from inside the box without amazing build-up, no long-shots without a bit of skill beforehand unless they're still rising when they hit the net, no goals where there's demonstrably shoddy defending, no halfwayline punts, no irish

otm except for yerman against italy u-21's he's in

there have got to have been better goals in womens football than those two right? lamentable gk imo

no goals where there's demonstrably shoddy defending

there's yr fave out then

my fave Prem, it's probably like #25 overall

you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac) wrote this on thread "A small thread with a small mentality" - Liverpool and Man City won't win the Premiership 2009/10 on board I Love Everything on Oct 28, 2009

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Bolton and Celtic want to sign FC Utrecht striker Ricky van Wolfswinkel.
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#3 is one of my favs here. as good a cover of that Marco Van Basten goal as I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6h3DZDsBI4

Hmmm, c what you mean, but that still looks like a bloke sticking his boot out and hoping for the best. Not got quite the same degree of crazy sharpshooter precision and intent to my eyes

jus watching a ball drop over your shoulder with that perfect clarity of vision and purpose "pick this one out then you c*nt"

That jackson martinez goal (AND YOU CAN SCOFF ALL YOU FUCKIN LIKE RTC) is a v dmac effort tbph

31 Karim Benzema
Messi against Brazil
It's all kind of numbing

Zlatan's is the best though, you lot're lying to yourselves

xp only not as good?

Cisse at 10 ahead of Suarez at 62 for the epl booby prize

The volleyed cunts a la that benzema can be stricken imo, and really that messi goal is ordinary for messi

xp well idk if you saw a guy my size do it youd be impressed right

You are incredible, basically

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.

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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

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