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Jaw I can compare whoever to whomever, the connections between events and memories of events, players and the goals they scored, to other players and other goals is as personal as a fingerprint. If you want to get all territorial over it, and to view it as a pissing contest, or a my favourite player is better than your favourite player, or this goal was bigger than that goal.
You can Jog.Fucking.On >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(as I type this, CliveO is posting up every youtube clip of every Zola goal ever... Though I think he's missing the point as the Essien and Alex goals are just thunderbolt strikes with no finesse or grace abut them.)
Berbatov is an exquisite player, and whilst discussing first touches, spatial awareness, that goal sprang to mind, it could just as easily have been Hernan Crespo, who scored a last minute brace of goals to pull Parma's arse out of the fire against someone who I forget in Serie A way back when, with one of them involving a delightful twist and turn, or Riquelme doing something understatedly outrageous for Villareal, or the young Del Piero in his pomp for Juventus.
I make no apologies for putting that goal up there, and am just disappointed that the joy of footbal fans discussing the beautiful things that players do, the small things, the connective tissue of control, awareness and improvisation is so swiftly subsumed back into the narrow partisan parameters that this thread never wanders far from..