Some of you will know that’s a question I’ve been asked a lot over the last 18 months or so. But, relax, I’m not talking about politics, I’m merely referring to the goal of the season contest over at the offal.
Lydia mentioned it yesterday and it’s pretty hard to pick a winner. I could rave about them all but you don’t necessarily want to read all of that.
On pure jaw-dropping ability alone, three goals strike you straightaway. There’s the quite astounding strike from Clint Dempsey at Stoke. I’d say I’m not sure he could do it again that that boy keeps producing moments of absolute genius. The American’s involved in another one as well. Anyone who was there when that ball dropped inside the far corner will remember the sheer audacity of that instinctive cheap.
And there’s the wonderful bit of ball-juggling from Simon Davies that got our European adventure back on track. People in front of me were saying he should have been taken off at half time and the underrated Welshman produces a mesmorising spell of skill that Leo Messi might marvel over.
I wouldn’t like to over-influence the result, of course, but for me it’s that Juventus goal. For all that went with it – the crazy experience of rebounding from 4-1 down and the fact that had Clint not tried it, we’d never have gone to Hamburg twice.
I voted for the Clint v Juve goal becuase not only was it in a situation where we needed to score, but on a purely selfish point, I was there!
I had forgotten about Zoltan’s wondergoal at Man City in the League Cup!
Clints chip was amazing but my vote goes to Davies against Hamburg. It felt like slow motion in my living room. It was a hard choice though.
I went with Clint’s goal against Stoke. As brilliant as the Juventus goal was, there’s still those who feel he simply hit a bad cross rather than a terrific shot. With the Stoke goal, there’s no denying Clint’s intentions & it simply looked amazing.
It IS a difficult choice. There was so much quality there. I enjoyed just watching “the reel.” Bobby Z can really roll those European defenders, can’t he? Where was I? Oh yes, I selected the Dempsey v. Juve goal, not only for its importance, but because of his intensity. And as for the “it was really a mis-hit cross” crowd, watch his turn again, the slight lifting of his head prior to the shot. It takes a special kind of monster ego to make the decision to take that strike in a game like that.
That’s our boy.
I can see why you think that from watching the TV footage Jason, but from behind the goal you could tell he meant it. As Don says, he had a cheeky little look up as the ball came his way and there’s the shifting of his body position and feet to try it.
Um, never said I thought it was a bad cross. I was on twitter defending it as being clearly a shot. I said “those who still feel.” Had I thought it, I would have said “I feel”.
Big difference.