Best piece of skill you've ever done on the football pitch?

[Guinness Boy]

Yesterday I played 6-a-side football at lunchtime with some work colleagues.

Now those who know me will testify to the fact that I am the archetypal Butters-like big lad at the back. My god-given lack of skill and fitness has been exacerbated over the years by too much Guinness, red wine and a 20 a day habit I'm only just starting to kick.

However yesterday I pulled off that one moment of Brazil 1970 quality we all dream of doing once a lifetime. I received a pass on the left wing on halfway with a marker level with me. By feigning to pass back I sent him backwards instead of goal side for a fraction of a second during which I backheeled the ball in to space and turned. This miraculously had the perfect weight on it for me to catch up with the ball just before it got to the corner and hit the perfect cross first time with my weaker left foot. It dropped right at a team mates foot and he only had to volley it in for an absolute cracker but he shinned it wide.

If I tried that combination again another 99 times I would never do it again but for 30 seconds luck was on my side. What's the best / luckiest or most outrageous bit of flair you've ever achieved playing football?

 

[tinx]

I scored a classic cross/lob on the keeper from the sidelines a couple of weeks back back to goal I struck the ball high into the centre with shed load sof spin on it and to my luck and fortune it dropped over the keepers head and into the far top corner.

Made my week it did.

 

[Buzzer]

at the pitch invasion thingy at stanley deason a few years ago the ball came to me at about shin height. I had my back to goal, flipped it over mine and the defender behind me's head, spun round him and side footed it into the goal.

For that one brief moment, I didn't look like the pile of pants that I usually am on a football pitch.

 

[Les Biehn]

I chipped the keeper from 6 yards once in training. Really don't know how I did it but I some how chipped it with the outside of my right foot and it curled in an arc over him from six yards. He was decent keeper as well. For some reason even as I attempted it I knew it work. However since then I have never even got close to recreating it. I am certainly not known for my skill.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Once, playing five a side, I saw one of my team mates about 5-6 yards away from me. With no-one around either me or him, I managed to kick the ball about two feet away from him, but he moved slightly and got it anyway.

Still my finest hour.

 

[Napper]

at school in a cup final , we were attacking , ball was crossed in at pace , about 25 yards out I hit it and connected oh so sweet . The ball rocketed off and hit corner/bar join and smashed in.
Was mobbed by team mates .... brilliant moment,

Never repeated again !

 

[rool]

I threw a hissy fit once and didn't want to play in goal anymore so swapped places with the striker.

The winger crossed from near the left corner flag, the ball arrived slightly behind me on the edge of the area, I turned my back to goal, controlled the ball on the top of my foot turned and shot into the bottom left hand corner before everest was able to take it from me to steal my glory.

It was in fact my only ever goal but what a goodun

 

[Commander]

10 mins to go, 2-0 down in 6-a-side and was getting really frustrated. Around the half way line I attempted a Cruyff turn, which to my amazement came off perfectly, however, I started to lose my balance so just hit the ball with my left foot as I fell over. It took off high into the air, then started dipping really quickly. The keeper was nowhere, and I just had time to see the ball crash back off the crossbar before I hit the floor. f*** it.

Still seriously satisfying though, even though it didn't go in.

 

[Mrs Coach]

In the good old days of the bucket and sponge, many many moons ago, I ran on to treat a fallen player who happened to be the most gorgeous left back in the league. His injury was on his knee, how on earth my sponge ended up in his shorts I'll never know!
Now THAT'S skill for you!

Mrs C.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Back in the day..

I was playing with mates and let me tell you I am no Platini, but I received the ball about 25 yards out and remember shouting "see them running and dying" as I shouted "Dying" I connected with the ball in a sweet sweet volley which sent the ball through a packed defence with a beautiful bend into the top of the net.

Everyone was completely amazed because normally I am s**t, never repeated sadly, odd though, I too knnew as my foot connected exactly where that ball was going.

 

[Chicken Run]

The geezer who hit the sheff united fan with a corner flag when they came onto the pitch many years ago, i think the photo was on the front of the argus

 

[Buzzer]

Back in the day..

I was playing with mates and let me tell you I am no Platini,

Glad we cleared that up then!

 

[Bigtomfu]

Simply received the ball in my own half, a Cruyff turn to out fox the opposition, looked up and calmly lobbed the keeper from 50-55 yards out....

Once in a life time event, it was so intuitive that I knew what I was doing and knew it would go in- nearly died under the mass bundle afterwards though!

 

[See-Goals]

I was 10 playing upfront for my primary school in a 6 a side competition. Our keeper cleared to the halfway line, our tall lad in midfielder flicked it on to me where I executed a perfect 20 yard overhead kick (just went for it at a stretch thinking I wouldn't get it) over the keeper and in to the top corner.

 

[JJ McClure]

I'm not much of an attacker and rarely score anything other than taps in so most my "skill" has happened while defending or in goal.

Remember one from school when the the balls was chipped over our keeper and I somehow scissor kicked it off the line. Seem to recall being compared to Alan Hansen for that act although not sure why.

More recently pulled off a pretty blinding double save in a six a side game. Blocked a shot by someones feet to the left of the goal and the scrambled back and flung myself full length back across goal to stop the follow up. Made the astro turf scrapes worth it.

 

[Wozza]

I hit the crossbar from a corner with my last ever kick at school.

 

[Bakesy]

I once scored from the halfway line.

 

[Hampden Park]

i tripped mr windross on a rain sodden pitch and he went headfirst into a muddy puddle (he had an horrendously long and bushy beard) and came out f***ing filthy. got sent off

 

[Soul Finger]

Five-a-side in Steyning about seven years ago.

Ex-Albion left back Russell Bromage was behind me as I received the ball at pace.

I dinked the ball right over both our heads then spun off him and twatted a left volley (I'm right footed) past the keeper.

Like Graham Norton, it was an absolute screamer. Then someone told me we were playing the 'no over head height' rule.

Wankers!!!

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

My greatest moment came as an 11 year old saving a header from Steve Penney during a school visit/training session, a few months later he was playing in Mexico 86.

For me it's been all downhill since then.