Football

andyp, that flick for the goal against newcastle is amazing, and he knew what he was doing, and where he wanted to get to, but what gets me is teh commentator's lack of awareness of what is going on, how he's so far behind the intentions. As if not knowing how skillful Bergkamp can be, he can't see the possibilities.
Or it could just be that it's commentary from a highlights package..

Those touches are what make football beautiful, just the awareness and the knowledge that if you do this, touch/control/flick/whatever you've envisaged in your head, could/would lead to this opportunity. I just love the improvision of it all. How what you can do is dictated by what is happening around you, and so every situation is different, every flourish is different and unique, and unrecreatable (is that even a real word), and makes it even more amazing that they actually occur...

Mark Lawrenson claimed it was lucky on MoTD. What a total cretin that man is.

I completely agree on the second paragraph, it truly is the beautiful game.

I'm with Andy Gray. It's goals that win games.

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Like a football time machine, taking you back to some glorious times, I forgot how great Bergkamp's goal against Argentina was,

Watching the magical touches, reminds me of a turn right on the touchline that berbatov produced, I think against west ham, when he was playing for spurs, controls ball, flicks round player in on goal, glorious finish...

but anyway onto the guardian's 6 best.

Did you really just compare Berbatov with Bergkamp? Really?!?

Quarter final of the WC against Argentina vs some poxy game against West Ham!

I know, Berbatov is much better.

Those touches are what make football beautiful, just the awareness and the knowledge that if you do this, touch/control/flick/whatever you've envisaged in your head, could/would lead to this opportunity. I just love the improvision of it all. How what you can do is dictated by what is happening around you, and so every situation is different, every flourish is different and unique, and unrecreatable (is that even a real word), and makes it even more amazing that they actually occur...

Not too dissimilar to riding at speed through London rush hour traffic.

Bergkamp was brakless? With headphones in?

And no light, helmet or mudguards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ywVLaJtNw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Usmjudsjybg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiyfgqJdqOE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9DhnG37mrc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5NfTTk-F5I&feature=related

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7EhlJQwPps&feature=related"]Frank
Lampard Emotional Penalty Kick vs. Liverpool CL 2008 - YouTube[/ame]

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..

jan - consider this^ fish landed...

I'm trolling, but if you mean that touch in one of his first games for United then yes. He skinned someone doing a backward piroutteing thing.

Oh Damo; I'm still trying to get hold on those books for you BTW, it's been a busy week and Pearson online bookshops are top-shit.

Cheers fella.

Ahh fuck it. It must be time for this if we are talking about greatest premier league moments or goals all of a sudden. Though I do feel the point has been lost now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHEtpT3UL4

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..

tl;dr ;)

Robbie Fowler was the greatest natural goal scorer of all time.
Discuss

But I think he may have taken too many drugs and lived it up a little too much

Living in the past.

BEST ALEX FREE KICK FOR CHELSEA 116 km/h - HD - YouTube

hmmm

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IEj0YsFH0U"]Luis
Garcia scores superb goal vs Chelsea, Fa Cup semis 2006 - YouTube[/ame]