Great piece from Amber Nectar... âWhat, from here?â A great line from the first episode of Porridge, as Muswell Hill burglar Norman Stanley Fletcher is asked by Slade Prisonâs medical officer to urinate into a tall glass on a table across the room. Whenever a digital channel is set to re-run episodes of the 70s penal sitcom, (ie, all the time) they always choose this clip for the promotional trailers. âWhat, from here?â The thought running through the head of Jay Simpson, not to mention many thousands of Hull City supporters, as the ball reaches pretty much the byline from an overhit pass with the striker expected to do something tangible with it. What on earth could he really manage, though? The delivery from Robert Koren was strong, too strong, and you could hear the faint sighs of disappointment from the crowd in the few seconds that lapsed between it leaving his boot and Simpson getting to it. Cityâs centre forward had proved most resourceful so far this season, but this seemed a step â literally and figuratively â too far. By the time his foot connected with the ball he was probably no more than six inches from the byline. It was enough of an achievement keeping it in play. So, again, what on earth could he really do? He could have tried to kill the ball and re-assess the situation, but he had a defender on his back and the momentum of his run would have taken him away from the deadened ball and allowed his marker an easy clearance. He could have tried to pull it back but that would have required an extra step in order to get his foot right round the ball, almost certainly allowing it to trundle out of play. So, he had no choice, really. To keep it in play and give the team any possibility at all of getting something out of it â and most of us were thinking about a corner, at best â he just put his left foot through it. Towards goal, towards the goalkeeper, towards the area, a bit roughshod, no real plan. A simple ricochet would have got the corner, a luckier one perhaps would have gone to the six yard box where maybe someone was following up. The laws of physics shook violently under the strain, turning to each other afterwards as if to say âwhat the hell happened there?â, as Simpson aimed the ball somehow through the arms of Carl Ikeme while also finding the football-circumference sized gap between the two posts. It went in. It had no right to. It was an amazing goal. A brilliant goal. An impossible goal, really. http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/2012/11/match-report-city-2-wolves-1/
& a goal much needed by Simmo as his critics were starting to resurface during his 'goalless spell' (For the record, I thought he looked like he needed a rest against Barnsleh and the first half last night)
It was breathtaking, that sums it up perfectly. The Wolves keeper and players looked shell shocked. Have to say I had to keep looking at the ball sat in the centre of the goal and say WTF have I witnessed - did that really go in? We seen 40 yard efforts go into the top corner, brilliant volleys, excellent headers. For me this will take some beating as the best goal I have ever seen. He simply had no right to score from that angle, the margin of error must quite literally have been zero. I was still shaking my head in disbelief on the drive home - simply incredible.
Cheers OLM, great piece as ever by AN. The thing that stuck in my head about it was that no one even seemed to notice (I certainly didn't) that the shot was on a goalward trajectory until it hit the far post, and then it was just replaced by the entire stadium audibly thinking "How did it get there?". There was no cheer from the crowd until it was firmly in the goal and that seemed to be when everyone realised. A truly weird, but exceptional goal.
I suspect it will be on here in a day or so... http://www.skysports.com/video/inline/0,,16463,00.html
If anyone does find a clip can they post it on here somewhere? I hardly ever see our goals back after weeknight games.
It's on tiger's player now - may need to be a subscriber to watch it though http://www.player.hullcityafc.net/latest-news/article/1937512
Sky didnt even bother showing it last , showed the first goal and that's it. Beautiful finish it was though , could see the turf come up were he hit it from , right on the line, edge of the area. I sit directly above . How that went in i dont know , i think anyone else would have given it up for a goalkick/corner.
Just saw the highlights on tigers player. How the hell did he score that? Also amos and mecca need to be slapped on the back of the head for the series of events that led up to their goal.
Why does Peter Levy appear to be sat in front of a display that's about to show highlights of us playing at Glanford Park?
I was sat bang in line with the goalie and Simpson in the South West corner and I saw no deflection off the keeper. It just went straight in off the post.
Not what has been said today. I thought it did but some say not. The point that matters is that it went in.
