Favourite Spurs Goal of Your Lifetime

[GosfordSpur]

Some great, great goals mentioned. very difficult to choose..Hoddle's volley against Man Utd definitely my 2nd favourite and No1 is Greaves's against Leicester when he beat 5 men, dribbled around Peter Shilton and stroked it into the net. Cosmic Spur did mention this as one of her favourites but wasn't sure who the opposition was. As older supporters will recall, this goal graced our match programme for a number of years. We've had some great goalscorers over the years and scored some wonderful goals but Greaves's goal was truly out of this world.

 

[alexis]

Ricky Villa mazey run and nutmeg, was just a kid and went with my mum bless her cottons

 

[shelfmonkey]

Got three in this order. Ghod v Watford, I was there, Villa 81 FA Cup replay and Rose's winner against the scum.

 

[Gassin's finest]

At 0.25:

 

[Gassin's finest]

And a new entry to the charts:

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

Pedro mendes' winner at old Trafford.
Still bitter.

 

[Hot Spur]

Jimmy Greaves dubut goal for spurs against Blackpool. The ball came over from a Dave Mackay throw in, was flicked on by Terry Medwin and as it looped towards Greaves, surrounded by Blackpool defenders, he reacted quicker than any of them, jumped into an almost horizontal position, at the same time rolling over to volley the ball left footed into the roof of the net. The Blackpool goalkeeper stood rooted to the spot and the look on his face said it all. He couldn`t believe what he had just seen. That was the first goal of a hat trick that day for Jimmy and a better executed goal you will never see.

 

[Hot Spur]

Pedro mendes' winner at old Trafford.
Still bitter.

Yea, Clattenburg still owes us for that.

 

[knowlespurs]

ricky

 

[Indacupfortottenham]

Woodgate's winner against Chelsea in the final , just edges Gazza against Arsenal in the semi final for me.

I really hope we win a trophy soon, it's been far to long!

 

[Wirral Spurs]

Crouch at City made me cry, Villa in 81 made me delirious (I was there for that), Bale in the San Ciro amazed, Bale at Upton Park watching with my 2 boys still sends shivers1! Every Spurs goal that matters is special. Good subject OP.

 

[sweyid]

Crouch v Man City.

 

[DCSPUR]

the reason it has to be Gazza against the goon squad is 3 reasons:
1. it was brilliant
2. they were so bloody good that year
3. and this is key - we were, according to the press, teetering on the verge of bankruptcy/ going to have to sell our stars to stay afloat
4. they were massive favorites going into the game

watching that game i felt physically sick until the final whistle - it meant that much.

 

[Pat Rice Spurs fan]

Turned a kid from York, with no other connections, into a life-long Spurs fan

 

[Gassin's finest]

Only copy of this goal I could find:

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

Somewhat predictable, but it's almost impossible to look beyond this little beauty. Gazza's 91 special.

Scored against our scummy nomadic neighbours, who happened to have one of the best 'keepers in the world and, if I remember rightly, Gazza had awesome advice off Lineker. Something along the lines of "Just smash it Gaz" .. Profound Gary, very profound!

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

The next goal will always be my favourite...

That's deep bro

 

[Flynn]

Crouch at city.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

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…...

Could have done with you two years ago (posted #93 Jan 2014):

I'm only going to include goals I actually witnessed live.

I've been privileged to witness some wonderful goals down the years. The early ones that always stick in my mind were the volley's Hoddle scored against Gary Bailey and Peter Shilton, you will never see better goals of their type, the construction, the execution and the sheer poetry of Hoddle in full motion, the purest of techniques, like watching a ballet with a ball. We tend to forget that you were allowed to kick fuck out of players back then with very little help from refs, Hoddle never hid from it, never shirked receiving the ball and taking the piss. And those goals epitomised the grace, power and control he had on any game.

Another goal that has always stuck in my memory was a goal that Garth Crooks scored against Everton at home in the early eighties where a cross came over from the right and he kind of leapt, hovered and swivelled in mid air, volleying the ball, in mid air, past big fat Neville Southall I think.

Another goal is not exactly specific, I can't remember the actual game but Archibald, Crooks and Hoddle had this routine where Hoddle would zip a free kick on the ground toward Archibald on the edge of the box, he would step over it and Crooks would be behind him and would dink the ball round the corner (of the marking defender) where Archibald would have run into and he slotted it home. Just wonderful synchronicity.

Recent times, Crouch's against Milan at the San Siro was just one of those mental moments. Soaking wet, freezing cold, about a mile up in the clouds, Crouchy scores a goal in one of the great amphitheatres of football to cap a performance I didn't think possible with a result I didn't think possible.

But anyone who was at Wembley the saturday Ricky Villa trudged off utterly dejected and then made the return journey the following thursday night when Ricky Villa danced and weaved his way through what seemed like ManC's entire team to help us come from 2-1 down to win the FA CUp when the FA Cup meant so much more, would be hard pushed to rate any goal more "favourite" than this one. It went beyond going mental, I swear I levitated. 1981 was possibly my favourite year, I was 16, a beautiful age, full of spunk and invincibility and that was a beautiful, utterly orgasmic piece of football.

 

[oohaahedgar]

Ricky Villa's wasn't just my best goal but it was the best moment of my life and still is. Obviously there are better things in life but when it went in I couldn't have been any happier than if I watched my 6th number come up on a rollover week, whilst being pleasured by the two fit ones out of Bananarama.