By the way, whose turn is it to get an England cap? Somebody on here must be due one. It is now so easy to get one that by the time Hodgson retires or is sacked everyone will have one. And to top the fact that ordinary players like Wellbeck and Cleverley can be starters for England we are now picking players who are eligible for other countries. What a complete bloody mess the FA is!
I think it was only the English media who had there doubts about how good he was, for someone of that size he is incredibly skillfull and technically exceptional. He is what a real target man should be, not the likes of Carroll et al and there one touch and lose it policy.
not so sure carrabuh, i know plenty of people who had doubts. maybe it's because they just don't like the guy. agree with your comments though about him
for me, that was in the top three ever but it was the most outrageous i've ever seen. my top 3: carlos alberto for brazil v italy, 1970 (best team goal and certainly the most beautiful piece of football i've ever seen result in a goal) diego maradona for argentina v england, 1986 (best individual goal - i've seen messi do similar and 'fat' ronaldo but for the magnitude of the occasion i think this probably just trumps them) zlatan ibrahimovic for sweden v england, 2012 (most outrageous goal i've ever seen - totally ridiculous technique. i screamed at the telly in disbelief! unbelievable jeff) on the whole ibrahimovic thing, i am one who has had doubts about him. i've never doubted his ability - he has natural flair in abundance - that is and always has been obvious - but he does it more fleetingly than the truly greatest players such as messi, zidane, ronaldo etc. i've seen him have absolutely terrible performances before, where you wonder how the guy is even a footballer at all. he blows hot and cold too often to be right up there as one of the greats but he's definitely one of the best footballers of his generation and on his day, completely unplayable.
You're all wrong, Geoff Hurst's "they think it's all over goal" was the best goal ever scored and always will be!! It won England the World Cup, what can be better than that? He had already played a full 90 mins on a stamina sapping Wembly pitch, in a highly competive game. Took the ball over his left shoulder, ran on and smashed in with his left foot. I was 13 at the time and had to have my tonsils removed afterwards as I think I wrecked them screaming!!!
Disagree with Maradona's goal based on the fact he only had to beat Peter (I'm giving up chasing him) Reid and Terry (I tried to stiff arm him but missed) Fenwick
Bedford, many thanks for your polite reply on my ironic comment. (just in case ,there is some irony in the preceeding sentence)
Spawny goal! It was obvious to anyone with half a brain that he intended to pass back to his keeper to play out time but completely misdirected the ball!
swing your foot at it oh it went in you're a genius it goes wide you're winning anyway and it wastes time up
We are talking Ibrahimovic and not Ian Dowie. Mark Hughes and our own Robert Fleck were capable of scoring stunning unbelievable goals (sometimes miss tap ins of course) and what matters is that they meant to do it.
It was an incredible goal, but still some way off the greatest goal of all time (in my opinion anyway), that being Clive Freeman's effort for Altrincham against Chester City in the 2nd round of the FA cup back in something like 1992. Foot like a traction engine that fella
it's certainly one of the most outrageous things i've ever seen on a football pitch. it'll be shown for years and years and quite rightly. it is the goal equivalent of the rené higuita scorpion kick, also, bizarrely, against england (a match i was at - very honoured to have seen it!)
