GOAL 1 - Aiden McGeady for Everton v Leicester, Saturday 16th August GOAL 2 - Lee Cattermole for Sunderland v West Brom, Saturday 16th August GOAL 3 - Andre Schurrle for Chelsea v Burnley, Monday 18th August GOAL 4 - Mame Biram Diouf for Stoke v Man City, Saturday 30th August GOAL 5 - Wayne Routledge for Swansea v West Brom, Saturday 30th August GOAL 6 - Alberto Moreno for Liverpool v Spurs, Sunday 31st August Now you will have to excuse the foul language here, but where the ****ing-ever-all-mighty-**** is our third goal vs QPR??? You know the one, 48 passes and it ends up in the back of the net from Chadders? The one that had it been scored by Barca or even dare I say it L'Arse then the Beeb et al. in the media would have creamed so many pairs of undercrackers over there would be a national shortage of white Y-fronts!! What the ever loving ****? Little rant, but honestly! words had to be said...
Just another example of how **** the football media are. They obsessed about QPR's defending before pointing out that they'd have loved it if Barca and Messi had done something similar. They're actually aware of how biased and crap they are, bizarrely.
The biggest problem is that it was so good it wouldn't fit in the time slot they allocate for goal of the month and the montage music would finish.
Didn't stop them nominating Wilshere last season for a similar goal. When I say "similar", it had about 22 passes and only involved seven of their outfield players.
so that's similar as in not even half as good, but involving an English media football pin-up boy? aaaaaaah all makes perfect sense now
On further review, QPR made us look good AND we aren't Man U, Chelsea or Arsenal, so it doesn't count.
What were they doing, yelling instructions about who to pass to and when they'd be making their run? If so, that's a few players being banned for life because of match-fixing.
Ah, who cares, let them ignore us and then come crawling back as the season progresses and we improve(hopefully).
Well it was a training ground game and Chadli had the final touch so you can understand why it wasn't included.
English football mind-set in a nutshell. It wasn't a screamer or an individual piece of skill so that must mean it wasn't any good. Hell, anybody can pass the ball to a team mate, work the ball round the pitch for a few minutes, teasing the opposition out and frustrating them just to pounce at the right moment. All goals should be like how the England national team play. Run around like headless chickens, streaming towards goal and shooting from 30 yards every single time in the hope that one shot out of 15 will take a deflection and go in. That is how the media think football should be played and why our goal doesn't register with the failed managers and those ex-players to gutless to even try that fill the media these days.
To be honest, I'm always in favour of the more spectacular strikes being goal of the month. It's great to see a team systematically pick another team apart but screamers from distance are far more valuable and worthy of award. The longer a move takes to score the more you'll see errors from the defenders, even if it's through a team's hardwork grinding them down. Give me a one-off wonder strike that comes out of nowhere anyday. But yeah, since Arsenal's Norwich goal was praised so highly we should have at least had the recognition of a goal of the month nomination for ours.
Real wonder strikes from either massive distance or an unlikely angle are special, but hits from about 30 yards happen at every level, every week. Teams don't often put away goals at the end of a 46 pass moves, including all eleven players. I'm pretty sure that something similar happened when Lennon scored this goal in a 4-0 win against Boro: [video=youtube;e5-tgzzPv4I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5-tgzzPv4I[/video] MOTD edited out about half the move, IIRC.
Palacios was good before his brother was murdered. Always tried 100% after that, too. The guy has my sympathy for everything that he's been through and his attitude appears to have been exemplary, even if his game suffered badly.
