A 17-year-old Nwankwo Kanu – in just his second start for Ajax – shows great feet for a big child against NAC Breda (1994)pic.twitter.com/Suo46vrszg
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Pelé, for Santos against Juventus in 1959, sadly not caught on camera but conveniently, vividly and highly accurately recreated in a computer simulation, based on the eye-witness account of...Pelépic.twitter.com/sNBPmXCcqK
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Serious point, light-hearted point, but, no, seriously here's Frank Lampard Sr scoring for West Ham against Liverpool in 1974 (exquisite Barry Davies subtweeting of the impatient Upton Park crowd halfway through, too)pic.twitter.com/SQC6gldEza
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Ninderz Sandhu for crack West Midlands outfit Sikh Hunters FC (2014)pic.twitter.com/B1nfpf5KkS
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Oktay Derelioğlu – a man once transferred for the magnificent fee of 1 billion Turkish lira – goes solo against Belgium (1997)pic.twitter.com/cKMWvPdqvJ
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Dean Saunders vs Port Vale (1998), the highlight being the precise moment that goalkeeper Paul Musselwhite realises what's about to happen.pic.twitter.com/FlIaTwcEas
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Andreas Ogris for Austria Vienna vs Barcelona (1993). Open for a surprise.pic.twitter.com/uCcZtzKvnq
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Filippo Inzaghi with some off-script Inzaghi-ing for Milan against Barcelona (2010)pic.twitter.com/XHJMBtcEUA
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"To be honest, I don’t know what possessed me to do it...I didn’t see it as a spectacular goal that I was gonna go crazy about. Now I look at it and think, yeah, the drag-backs were quite something.” Clive Allen for QPR vs West Ham, 1984pic.twitter.com/d3nQmaD4mT
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look at the state of the pitch!! Makes it even better!
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Replying to @RagingAl_HS @FootballCliches
Standard 80s 'well looked after pitch' no?
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