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With Andy Gray - Remember him ?
This is my 2nd favourite goal. Im surprised it went to page 2 before being mentionedNo Ricky Villa 14.5.1981 Wembley replay ?
Surprising.
Stood on the shelf that night, the ground was buzzing with amazement for quite a while after he treated us to this…….
Anyone not knowing how good he was, he did almost exactly the same thing against Forest shortly afterwards, IIRC the goalkeeper (Aleksic) drop kicked it, someone (Chris Jones?) headed it on, Gerry Armstrong won the next header and Hoddle volleyed it in. I'm pretty sure the ball didn't touch the ground from goalie to back of net…...
I think it's got to e Ginola v Leeds in the FA cup last 16.
It was a night game, a replay after we drew 1-1 at theirs, and the atmosphere was electric. We'd outplayed Leeds and were 1-0 up through an amazing Anderton goal, and Ginola had been destroying their defence all night but to no avail due to an exceptional Nigel Martyn.
Martyn had made two spectacular saves from Ginola, one of which he just tipped the shot onto the post after a great Ginola dribble from right to left. Even George Graham started celebrating prematurely.
Then, a ball was cleared out to the edge of the area. Ball still in the air, Ginola leapt off the ground and with the most amazing scissor kick scored an absolute screamer, ball hitting the back of the net before either it or Ginola had landed on earth again.
Impossible to say as there's so many but this one always sticks in my mind as a favourite, we were shit at the time, they were good, and this was a screamer.
Bale against WestHam where he was fouled and got up and smashed it top corner. Plus the celebration with AVB.
Ahhhh mint.