In 1978, Frank Worthington scored one of the greatest ever goals.
The ball came to him, he controlled it with one touch, flipped it over his shoulder, spun and shot.
Yesterday, Dele Alli did something remarkably similar.
This sublime piece of skill left Roy Hodgson grinning from ear to ear.
With Jack Butland, Fraser Forster, John Stones, Ross Barkley, Raheem Sterling, Dele Alli, Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge (if he can stay fir for more than 10 minutes), maybe, just maybe, there is a half decent future for English Football?
Compare and contrast the two goals.
Frank Worthington:
Delle Alli:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBgsJaUxjY
Both wonderful goals. I especially enjoyed the way the ref (Pat Partridge???) runs away applauding Worthington’s fine effort.
I prefer Dele’s in that it wasn’t scored against my team 😉
as a spurs fan living in Ipswich, I thought they were both crackers
As an Ipswich fan living in Norwich: of course they were, but that’s not the point 🙂
My favourite bit of skill so far this weekend. Mahrez. Unreal.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FootyAccums/status/691173140316160000/video/1
Nice.
Have been supporting Birmingham City for close to 50 years. The best 3 players I e er saw for Birmingham were:-
Trevor Francis – scored 4 goals in one match at the age of 16.
Christophe Dugarry – signed in January transfer window under Bruce and single handedly kept us in the Premiership.
Frank Worthington – a complete showman. The best ever football march I saw was a night game against Nottingham Forest – we won 2-0 with two Worthington wonder strikes. Man of the match was a toss up between him and Peter Shilton in the Forest goal who stopped it from being a cricket score.
Stephanie Roche joins the party
I thought the DA & FW goals above were both brilliant & the bought this to mind.
Paul Gasgoine V Scotland 1996
Decent future for English football ? Maybe, but we’ve had plenty of players that look great for their clubs at the highest level ( Champions League ) and when they played together didn’t seem to be able to do it for England.
The last really good England side I’ve seen was Venables side of ’96. Since then, despite some good club players, nothing that came even close to suggesting they could win something.
Sturridge ? Yes, great player when he fancies it. He will be another Keiron Dyer, constantly injured one way or another. Whether or not they’re genuine injuries, who knows.
As a hugely biased Spurs fan, I’m delighted to see Kane and Alli looking so good.
Not far behind them amongst the Spurs Academy are Marcus Edwards and Keziah Sterling, names to look out for.
I can’t recall the precise numbers, but Pocchetino has been instrumental in coaching around 10 of the last 15 England debutants.Long may it continue !
That side managed by Venables was the last England team not to be held to ransom by, firstly, David Beckham (made his debut later that year) and, since Beckham, Wayne Rooney.
It’s been continuous.
There’s yer problem.
Knock that on the head and they might have a chance.
not forgetting the “how do we accommodate Lampard and Gerrard in the same position?” question.
Solution: play them in the same position, or play Gerrard on the left wing (who came up with that idea).
The performance against Holland at Euro96 was the best I’ve ever seen from England. It nearly happened again in the semis, but not quite.
There were glimpses of greatness under Hoddle, but it always felt to “safe”.
The next great performance was 5-1 against Germany, which seemed remarkably similar to the Holland game in the way the team were set-up and the way they played. Roky Erickson never eked another performance like that out of the team, and Fabio Capello never eked a single performance out of the team.
Hodgson is similar in approach to Venables (if less of a Risk Taker), and seems to have a similar relationship with the players that El Tel had (maybe not as close), so I have (possibly misguided) hope.
Agreed, the Holland 4-1 was best I’ve seen too.
I’m sure Hodgson is a good coach, but I haven’t got much faith in him, but one thing is for sure. The reason that England haven’t come close to winning anything isn’t down to the managers we’ve had. Hoddle, Sven, Capello, all successful until England called. The players haven’t been up to it.
Lampard and Gerard ? They had plenty of opportunities to work out how to play together. They weren’t good enough.
To be fair to old Glenn, he didn’t get the breaks. The defeat on penalties against Argentina (Owen’s goal, Beckham’s kick meaning 10 men for an extended period) was a great England performance at a proper tournament against serious opposition and not played at Wembley.
I agree there’s something especially delightful about the cheeky over-the-shoulder goal:
(Neymar for Barcelona v Villareal)
Ahh but the chances of Dele Alli releasing an autobiography called ‘One Hump Or Two’ in 15 years time are pretty remote. Frank wins the interweb.
It was good, but not great. Not even the best goal of the weekend.
Which was Jon Toral – Birmingham v Ipswich
Can we all please stop posting great goals scored against Ipswich?
I used to have an old VHS video called something like “101 Great Goals”, but I found it very difficult to watch, as such a high proportion of the great goals seemed to be scored against West Ham United.
I share your pain.
Fuck me Nigel ! Is that you man ?!
_/\_ XXX
Thanks for the offer, Rob 😉
Yes, it is I.
(Infrequent visitor these days, I know.)
xxx
Same here. That weird chick behind the desk keeps freaking me, but I think it’s her parking space hassle. That and lack of sunlight.
Don’t ever change.
Hari H Corbett
Or you my friend. Or you _/\_
Thought I’d pop in again for a bit after a break and some nice vibes sent my way. FB does my cosmic crust in. Get your psychedelic bonce on twitter – we can be ‘homeys’, as the young folk say, Sri Nigelji 🙂
That Justin Fashanu goal, on a bobbly pitch. With added Martin Peters.
You realise this is almost as bad 🙂 ?
Poor Justin, though…