beardy gull
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Another classic reaction by Gus. He was walking round the back of the dugout laughing and shaking his head.
We were still talking about it after Noone scored. I was almost in line and it defied belief ! In this instance, it really was harder to miss.
That is just not true. It was definitely harder to drag it across the face of the goal than to score, but when he received the ball, he was not even level with the post. The easiest and most typical miss in that situation would have been putting it into the side netting. A bad miss but not easier to score than miss IMO. PS I was in C block and had a great view too. Also seen it on telly. And here is a still - dreadful, but I've seen many worse and definitely not easier to score than miss.
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. Would have loved to have seen Adam score a goal at Withdean. .
I nominate Illja Sivonjic of Dinamo Zagreb
He already has, this season. A header from a corner, to put us 1-0 up against Exeter / Yeovil (delete as approriate).
These kind of misses, where the player actually stops the ball from going in the goal, are my favourite. I remember seeing on one of those howler programmes a great effort from Francesco Baiano, later of Derby County, playing for Fiorentina. The ball has been lobbed over the 'keeper, is flying into the back of the net and Baiano slides in all of 30cm from goal to claim the strike, only to horrendously shin it over the bar. The player that took the shot was not best pleased!
He already has, this season. A header from a corner, to put us 1-0 up against Exeter / Yeovil (delete as approriate).
Did he? Was I there?
Okay correction - I'd love to have remembered him scoring at Withdean this season.
Slightly different in that the "fuckwit" didn't actually miss but got the goal disallowed for offside. Must admit, this made me laugh out loud when I first saw it, made all the sweeter by Ronaldo's reaction. But what the hell did Nani really think he was doing?
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