For me:
April 1982 - Nice throughball put me one on one with the keeper, but it was on my naff right foot. I mishit it badly. It ricocheted off the keepers legs for me to tuck away into an unguarded net with my left foot.
After that, it was the goals I scored in the garden against my kids
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"In comes the corner. It's headed clear, but Largo's on the edge of the box. It drops to him on the volley, he takes aim for the top right corner. But no, he's sliced it completely, it's deceived everyone and bobbled into the top left corner. What a goal!
Then I tore an ACL and haven't played 11 a side since. Ah well.
scored some half decent ones as well, however the last one was a simple far post 'tap in' header.
We lost that game 1-0.....
Went up for a corner, shit delivery of said corner doesn't clear first man, skims back to corner taker who flips in a diamond of a cross that just goes over the keepers hands and lands on my head which plants the ball to the side of the man on the post not really paying attention
Left wing, aiming for a great mate charging up the middle.
Strongest part of my game is spraying of Waddle-esque passes and crosses (but increasingly waddle-style 'runs'). Confidently deliver what I'm sure will be a pin-point cross for mate to nod home.
Ball somehow gets stuck between my left foot and some kind of baked island on the pitch.
Result; ball swerves madly into top left corner. Couldn't even hope to claim it as intentional.
Apologise slightly more to their gk than to my exasperated mate.
He wouldn't claim it though, as amazingly it was on target when it left my boot!
2015
Last one I scored was earlier this year from a quick pass inside from the left winger and I made a surging, Lampard-esque run onto it to sweep it into the bottom left with my left foot (I'm right footed) - I was the most surprised person on the pitch!
Picked the ball up in midfield and drifted to the left of the area - cut back inside and gave the keeper the eyes to send it far right then smashed in at the near post. No, I didn't miss-hit it!
Within 5 minutes I had broken my leg and that was nature's way of telling a 40 year old to hang up his boots.
Manged to look up from prone position with knee cap somewhere on the wrong side of the leg to see ball bounce off the post and in. 18 months on crutches, telling everyone how my Roberto Carlos-esq finish did for me.
I've scored a lot better!
Last goal - 2003 - Dynamo Wijndaal (Belgium) v Old Greenfordians FC - Near post header, in-swinging right wing free-kick, got across marker beyond near post, big running leap, beat the keeper who came to punch, glancing header flew into far side netting. 2nd best goal I ever scored (only scored about 20). Put a 6 inch tear in my right hamstring 5 mins later and have never been fit since.
Everyone there thought it was an absolute beauty of a goal, of course I told them I meant it.
I didn't.
(I'm really more of a holding player)
I went up for a corner, edge of the 18 yard box and as the ball came through a crowded goalmouth I caught it as sweet as a nut and buried it the onion bag. I turned to the Reserve Team Manager on the touchline who had dropped me, saluted him with a victory sign and said not bad for a third team player eh! We went on to win that game and relegate the opposition.
Needless to say the reserves won the second cup final that same afternoon without me so the manager felt his decision was justified but I felt that I had had the last laugh.