Best goal against the Albion

[perseus]

Another treated to stunned silence in a 34,000+ gates closed crowd was Ray Train for Rochdale against the Albion (like Ray Wilkins' goal). Trouble is it made the score 1-1 and Albion needed the draw to go up and Rochdale needed the draw to stay up, so nothing much happened after that.

remember that one well. believe john templeman scored the albion goal? i went to the rochdale away game the weekend before. great day out. ejected from ground before the game due to fans just walking in without paying, then thrown out at final whistle for celebrating on the pitch! mad days

remember on great goal but not the year. it was at home to swindon and it must have been around the time that they had reached league cup final. they beat us at the goldstone, trollope played and some guy hit an absolute screamer from some 35yrds into the north goal. think, but not sure, that swindon won 3-0 or 3-1

Spotland: in 1971, the perimenter fence was corrugated iron and fell down, the main terrace was a compacted black slag heap, and virtually everybody in the ground spoke with a southern accent.

Although the records book showed Willie Irvine scored Albion's winner in the last miniute, 2-1, I always thought it was Kit Napier.

Every time Albion scored, twice, I thought it was the home fan that ran on the pitch to attack the Albion players, but the Police appeared immediately and rugby tackled a burly looking northerner to the ground. One copper to each of his limbs, as they carted him away without too much fuss. This happened twice.

 

[eagles #1]

AJ's third in the 5-0 thumping of Brighton at Selhurst Park 26/10/02

 

[cheshunt seagull]

A few contenders not mentioned yet

- Ralph Coates for Orient in the 3-3 draw at Brisbane Rd in 1978/9
- Stuart Slater for West Ham at Upton Park in the late eighties.
- Dudley Tyler for Hereford in the Sunday game at the Goldstone in 1974

Overall though, I can't think of any that beat Keane's effort at WHL

 

[Marc]

Robbie Keanes in recent memory, was a bloody good goal

 

[perseus]

Kerry Mayo's for Hereford was unforgettable. I did not see his goal at Bramall Lane

 

[Croydonbloke]

All of them.

 

[Simster]

Sean Close for Bournemouth about 15 years ago. Fizzed into the corner of Perry's goal from about 25 yards and looked like hitting the onion bag as it left his boot.

 

[jezzer]

Although Keane`s is definitely the best this season, it was another goal by Spurs that did it for me. Back in about 1982-84, somewhere around then we played them in the cup, League cup I think and after drawing up at W.H.Lane, we lost 1-0 to them back at the Goldstone. I remember we were unlucky to not beat them up there and Foster in particular was determined that night to get the right result, going up front in the last 10-15 minutes at every opportunity to try and score but to no avail.

The goal that did us was scored by Garth Crooks. The ball was kicked past him towards the left wing, shooting towards our North Stand, the ball was looking like it would run off for a goalkick but garth managed to reach it and shoot it back towards goal at an incredibly acute angle and scored. It was an unbelievable goal and probably doesn`t exist on any video anywhere.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Shaun Brooks for Bournemouth at the Goldstone. Everybody around me in the South Stand was clapping. He came to play for us a couple of years later and was complete pony. Giggs' at Old Trafford, and Oldham's equaliser after Sergei Gotsmanov had scored for us (Nick Henry?) from 40 yards, leaving John Keeley rooted to the spot.