[Football] Goal scored straight from kick off!

[loz]

One of my claims for fame is back in the day when you had to play the ball back, I scored from the second kick of the game...Mid Sussex div 8 V, Hartfield at the Hartfield ground. (Anyone who knows that ground wont be surprised )

I saw the keeper down the pitch/ hill, walk over to talk to the left back just as the whistle went, so thought "ill try that" as I kicked it my team make shouted "loz what the fxxk are you doing" just as the ball hit the back of the net ...I scored 4 that game

Also I think it was done a few times at the Uckfield ground, the one that ran parallel to the high street. ( Probably gone now )

 

[Icy Gull]

Seem to remember Sam Baldock trying this at Newcastle away back in the Championship

Did he injure himself attempting it?

That ground looks very very empty

 

[atfc village]

Largest gate at Airdrie in a while

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Interesting that the goalkeeper couldn't sniff out that it was coming when the kickoff comes with one player standing over the ball.

Doesn't everyone just have the one player nowadays? I missed the meeting when the rule was changed, but having seen that I presume that the kick-off now acts like a direct free kick, as opposed to before when it was an more or less indirect one?