All time Favourite Albion goal

[bhaexpress]

Saw the latest Youtube offerings and it made me think back over the years to try and remember the most memorable Albion goal you have ever seen.

Was its Bobby's stunner against Halifax ? The penalty at the Milstad by the name we dare not speak ? Jimmy Case at Highbury ? We have had some great times over the years.

My own favourites have been winning goals scored in injury time in recent times Virgs against Swindon was a blinder. My own best two (I started the thread so that entitles me to two stabs) were Kenny Beamish against Blackburn (yes that Blackburn) in injury time back in 1972 when we went on to promotion. He hit it from the edge of the box in a crucial promotion game and the crowd went absolutely mad.

The other was none other than Eric Potts who came on with no time left against Sunderland. We were one nil down when he came on and yet in injury time (and up until the last five minutes, against the run of play) he managed to knock in two goals. Neither were spectaculer but I will remember to my dying day the rush those goals gave me, better than sex ? No question !

 

[Icy Gull]

The crowd on it's feet as Peter Ward leaving up to 4 players in his wake, some on their arses, weaved through the opposition culminating in a perfectly placed shot into the top corner giving the keeper no chance. He did it so many times on his way to 32 goals in a season that I can't be specific about the game though

You had to be there to appreciate the buzz of expectation in the crowd when Wardy went on one of those runs, never seen a player that comes close since, except maybe Sergei Gotsmanov

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

zamora vs ipswich at home

runs from half way, stops, curls it into the top corner

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

My own favourites have been winning goals scored in injury time in recent times Virgs against Swindon was a blinder.

Same here. Absolute Magic.

 

[Merseyside Seagull]

Best individual goal, probably Gary Nelson at Griffin Park against Brentford.

Then there's Wilkins v Ipswich, Zamora at Bury, Case at Anfield, Reinelt at Hereford.......the list could go on and on all not just great goals, but meant something alot more.

 

[Brovion]

Oooh too many, I can't pick a favorite. Most of Wardies, especially, as Icy says, the ones where he dribbled past about four players. Leaving aside The Special One then probably, (in roughly chronological order)

Willie Irvine against Aston Villa (about 1972). Runner up in MoTD's 'Goal of the Season'

Gary Williams against Forest (about 1979). Clough's first visit back to the Goldstone.

Mark Lawrenson against Wolves (about 1980). It was a Cup game and I think we lost!

Gerry Ryan's goal against Man City (about 1981).

Also liked Terry Connor's goal against Liverpool in 1984, but I wasn't at that match and only saw the highlights on TV.

I'm sure some Statto can correct the years.

 

[bhaexpress]

Oooh too many, I can't pick a favorite. Most of Wardies, especially, as Icy says, the ones where he dribbled past about four players. Leaving aside The Special One then probably, (in roughly chronological order)

Willie Irvine against Aston Villa (about 1972). Runner up in MoTD's 'Goal of the Season'

Gary Williams against Forest (about 1979). Clough's first visit back to the Goldstone.

Mark Lawrenson against Wolves (about 1980). It was a Cup game and I think we lost!

Gerry Ryan's goal against Man City (about 1981).

Also liked Terry Connor's goal against Liverpool in 1984, but I wasn't at that match and only saw the highlights on TV.

I'm sure some Statto can correct the years.

I think you'll find that Gary Williams was in 1980 and what got MotD's attention was that Peter Shilton didn't often get beaten by shots from outside of the box.

Gerry Ryans Classic was just after Cristmas 1979 (having overrun Palace on THAT boxing day a few days before). On the City side that day was none other than future Albion hero and Spanish Pundit Michael Robinson. Malcom Allison was in charge at the time and it was his tactical madness that led to the 4-1 rout.

 

[Da Man Clay]

That Virgo goal does it for me, Never had the same feeling when the Albion have scored.

 

[Frutos]

I'd have to go for Virgo against Swindon.

I wasn't able to get to the game that night (to my eternal regret), and so was watching on TV. I can honestly say that there have been very few other events in my life, and certainly no football related ones, which have caused me to scream and jump around as that goal did.

I love that about being a football fan, you can go from feeling miserable because your team is on the wrong end of things, to complete elation in a split second.

 

[brunswick]

virgs swindon

 

[tinx]

yep that virgo goal made that truly a night to remember, soaking wet, but nobody gave a shit.

 

[El Presidente]

Storer against Doncaster in the last match at the Goldstone.

There was so much hanging onto that game, first of all the desperation to get a ticket, then the bugler silencing the whole crowd as eyes started to water.

The news filtering through from Brisbane Road that Orient were beating Hereford gave us hope...........then the corner, pinball in the box, it bounces back from the bar and SS volleys it into the top corner. Without that Hereford would have been a wasted trip

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

Jamie Moralee V Millwall at Priestfield.
1 yard out and still very nearly cleared the bar with it.

 

[Skaville]

Best individual goal, probably Gary Nelson at Griffin Park against Brentford.

Nobody who was there would argue with that statement. The best Brighton goal I have seen by a country mile

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Storer against Doncaster in the last match at the Goldstone.

There was so much hanging onto that game, first of all the desperation to get a ticket, then the bugler silencing the whole crowd as eyes started to water.

The news filtering through from Brisbane Road that Orient were beating Hereford gave us hope...........then the corner, pinball in the box, it bounces back from the bar and SS volleys it into the top corner. Without that Hereford would have been a wasted trip

Without a shadow of doubt. My cricket match was rained off and I managed to watch most of the game by standing in someones garden in the pouring rain. A tote offered me a ticket for £100, but being a 17 year old schoolboy I couldn't afford it.

Only just saw the goal and it seemed to take an age to get in the net.

TGC - Do you still have the video of it? I need a fix

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Without a shadow of doubt. My cricket match was rained off and I managed to watch most of the game by standing in someones garden in the pouring rain. A tote offered me a ticket for £100, but being a 17 year old schoolboy I couldn't afford it.

Only just saw the goal and it seemed to take an age to get in the net.

TGC - Do you still have the video of it? I need a fix

Linked on another thread.

http://www.albionarchives.org/content/videos/storer.avi

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Nobody who was there would argue with that statement. The best Brighton goal I have seen by a country mile

In terms of quality of the goal, Nelse at Brentford, for sure. Wasn't even run close until Bob's volley against Halifax.

In terms of how nuts the fans have gone celebrating the goal, regardless of how it went in, then Storer, Reinelt, Virgs, McShane, Cullip, Wilkins and even Clive Walker and Mike Small (v.Millwall in play-offs) could all lay claim. Even Butters at West Ham, I remember looking at pics of us celebrating that one later and thinking that it looked like one of those old fashioned shots of standing crowds celebrating 'coz everybody was going so nuts. A mate of mine described it as looking like 'boiling soup' which I thought was pretty accurate!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Linked on another thread.

http://www.albionarchives.org/content/videos/storer.avi

Thank you sooooooo much.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

In terms of quality, it was a 35 yard free kick by Dean Wilkins, right at the end of a 6-1 defeat at Oldham!

Special mention to Zamora's at Chesterfield though, when he knocked the ball out of the keeper's hand - quality indeed.


I agree with what others have said though - that the actual quality of the goal is not all that important - its more the situation.

My favourite of all was Kevin Bremner's header against Bristol Rovers that sealed the last Goldstone promotion.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Zamora volley against the Shayman was truely magical, the way he watched it over his shoulder and volleyed it first time past the keeper was truely magnificent.