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What, for you, defines the perfect goal?


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22 passes with lovely skill, finishing with an overhead kick from 45 yards.

 

This is more less spot on what I was going to say.

 

So hard to say though, and probably dependent on your age.

 

For me, Becks on the halfway, Le Tiss lobbing Schmeichel in the 6-3 (may be biased as it was my first saints game), Cantona v Sunderland all really stand out - odd how they were all the 96/97 season.

 

Hate to say it, but that Matty Taylor volley a few years back for Pompey from about 35 yards where it just fell out of the air was pretty amazing. Bastard.

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I like ones like Chris Bairds a few years ago, we all thought we had pigged up another free kick when Bale passed to Surman who seemed to miss it completely to a massive groan from the crowd then out of the blue Chris Baird, running in, launched it like an Exocet from outside the box into the back of the net, had the keeper got his hands to it his wrists would probably have snapped.

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Is it a 22-pass one-touch goal, a scorcher from the half-way line or a brilliant bit of acrobatics? Or something else?

 

Anything that's given as a goal. I've scored with my arse and my c.ock, and whilst falling over and slicing it into the roof of the net from a yard, with an overhead kick at Dean Court, and from 35 yards against Pompey Online at Eastleigh, they were all worth just as many.

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For me, it's as much about what the goal means as the technical ability that has made it happen.

 

So, for the hit, what it meant and for the emotion involved there can only be one goal that is perfect for me: Matt Le Tissier v Arsenal, May 2001.

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Don Roper for Saints at the Dell in the late fifties, leather ball, volley from centre circle under the diving goalkeeper hit the stanchion and came back out under the still airborne goalkeeper like a bullet. I've never seen a shot hit so hard before or since.

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Difficult one - the goal can be about the emotion that goes with it as well.

 

Few for me will beat Marians one against the skates - that meant so much on so so many levels, have never gone so mental about a goal ever

 

Chaplows screamer against ManU was a good goal but it meant a great deal more - we were back and Pi**ing with the big boys having been 22nd in league 1, it made a lot of people look up and go 'bloody hell'

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