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Post by jakeg on Sept 15, 2024 9:29:45 GMT 1
Watching our fourth goal yesterday after walking close to 40 miles on Wander to Wanderers and sitting there giggling at the stupidity of it (I would have stood up but it was physically impossible!) it made me think about the other goals we've scored over the years that were funny as hell.
I remember Mark Pruhoe (I think it was him) taking an airshot and it bobbling into the net. Even back to Steve Death pushing one into his own net for Reading. Of course Hefele's arse at Villa
Anyone remember others?
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Post by menstonterrier on Sept 15, 2024 9:35:12 GMT 1
Peter Hart’s own goal at Hereford in 1980 was a belter
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Post by htfcterry on Sept 15, 2024 9:36:30 GMT 1
I can think of a few we've conceded! Phil Senior v Darlington at home in 2004ish, Mbete trying to defend at Reading away a few year ago.
Danny Ward closing the keeper down at WBA in the Carlos season where we fucked a 2-0 lead.. Pawel Abbotts goal against Lincoln was a strange but funny one.
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Post by benhomly on Sept 15, 2024 9:38:09 GMT 1
Gary Strodders bullet like header into his own net v West Brom
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Post by jakeg on Sept 15, 2024 9:39:55 GMT 1
I can think of a few we've conceded! Phil Senior v Darlington at home in 2004ish, Mbete trying to defend at Reading away a few year ago. Danny Ward closing the keeper down at WBA in the Carlos season where we fucked a 2-0 lead.. Pawel Abbotts goal against Lincoln was a strange but funny one. Was seniors the one I think I remember when the ball ballooned up high in the air and somehow he missed it, it bounced up hit the cross bar and went in? Or have i made that up!! |
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Post by jakeg on Sept 15, 2024 9:42:46 GMT 1
Gary Strodders bullet like header into his own net v West Brom Yes! That was 91/92 wasn't it which kicked started that great end to the season and the playoffs? |
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Post by htfcterry on Sept 15, 2024 9:45:24 GMT 1
I can think of a few we've conceded! Phil Senior v Darlington at home in 2004ish, Mbete trying to defend at Reading away a few year ago. Danny Ward closing the keeper down at WBA in the Carlos season where we fucked a 2-0 lead.. Pawel Abbotts goal against Lincoln was a strange but funny one. Was seniors the one I think I remember when the ball ballooned up high in the air and somehow he missed it, it bounced up hit the cross bar and went in? Or have i made that up!! Yeah that's the one. One of the most bizarre goals I've seen |
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Post by yorkie69 on Sept 15, 2024 9:48:55 GMT 1
Peter Hart’s own goal at Hereford in 1980 was a belter I was but a nipper but was down in Hereford that day as this was the game that confirmed promotion to division three, Town winning 3-1 but Peter Hart scoring an own goal from somewhere near the halfway line (as I remember it!). Don’t forget Bacuna did something similar against Stoke in the league cup a few years ago. |
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Post by gledholt terrier on Sept 15, 2024 9:54:49 GMT 1
Mitrovic capitalising on Ryan Schofield’s ridiculousness a few short years ago.
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Post by Terriersmad on Sept 15, 2024 9:58:55 GMT 1
Not Town, but Chris Brass attempting to hook the ball clear, smashing it into his own face, breaking his nose, and the ball flying past his own keeper is an all-time classic. As is the Man City own goal from the late 90s, where the defender flicks it over the striker’s head before elegantly nodding over his own goalkeeper.
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Post by bentley316 on Sept 15, 2024 10:39:04 GMT 1
Personal favourites are:
Hefele scoring off his arse against Villa on his debut.
Bacuna scoring an own goal with a volley about 40 yards out.
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Post by Oblong of Dreams on Sept 15, 2024 10:45:55 GMT 1
Watching our fourth goal yesterday after walking close to 40 miles on Wander to Wanderers and sitting there giggling at the stupidity of it (I would have stood up but it was physically impossible!) it made me think about the other goals we've scored over the years that were funny as hell. I remember Mark Pruhoe (I think it was him) taking an airshot and it bobbling into the net. Even back to Steve Death pushing one into his own net for Reading. Of course Hefele's arse at Villa Anyone remember others? The Prudhoe one always sticks with me. Think he had another howler against us a year or two later, not quite as comical but think he flapped at a shot and missed. Was he also in nets for them in the first win of the Jacko great escape season? Third goal in that one (Dalton) was pretty funny after the keeper had gone up for a corner. Think Prudhoe went to Bradford a couple of years later? Another one not involving Town (but a player we signed later) was Gary Crosby knocking the ball out of Andy Dibble's hand, for the scabs. |
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Post by jakeg on Sept 15, 2024 10:52:44 GMT 1
Watching our fourth goal yesterday after walking close to 40 miles on Wander to Wanderers and sitting there giggling at the stupidity of it (I would have stood up but it was physically impossible!) it made me think about the other goals we've scored over the years that were funny as hell. I remember Mark Pruhoe (I think it was him) taking an airshot and it bobbling into the net. Even back to Steve Death pushing one into his own net for Reading. Of course Hefele's arse at Villa Anyone remember others? The Prudhoe one always sticks with me. Think he had another howler against us a year or two later, not quite as comical but think he flapped at a shot and missed. Was he in nets for them in the first win of the Jacko great escape season? Third goal in that one (Dalton) was pretty funny after the keeper had gone up for a corner. Think Prudhoe went to Bradford a couple of years later? Yeah had forgotten that other one vs stoke that Dalton scored. Can't remember whether that was Prudhoe or not. And someone mentioned that Abbott 'offside' goal. I think the funniest bit was the reaction of all the opposition players - they were apoplectic....possibly rightly although I could always see why it was given. |
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Post by nearwildheaven on Sept 15, 2024 11:56:26 GMT 1
This one! Not town but always makes me chuckle.
There is just something amazing about a comedy own goal.
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Sept 15, 2024 14:28:02 GMT 1
Iwan Roberts away at Blackburn in the cup, just after the new back pass rule had come into force.
Don’t think it was a Hefele off the arse moment though.
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Post by Headless Chicken on Sept 15, 2024 14:48:11 GMT 1
Didn't involve us, but I'd be surprised if the Chris Brass own goal is ever beaten.
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Post by Arbie 1976. on Sept 17, 2024 19:18:21 GMT 1
All Gary Sprakes howlers for the Chest thumpers. Imagine how many times can you throw the ball into your ouw net. Oh happy days. UTT.
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Post by terriersyndrome on Sept 17, 2024 19:56:20 GMT 1
Prudhoe
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Sept 17, 2024 20:53:15 GMT 1
All Gary Sprakes howlers for the Chest thumpers. Imagine how many times can you throw the ball into your ouw net. Oh happy days. UTT. The Anfield Kop singing Des O’Connor’s “ Careless Hands” to him - one of the best ever examples of football humour. |
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Post by lookner on Sept 17, 2024 21:19:21 GMT 1
I can think of a few we've conceded! Phil Senior v Darlington at home in 2004ish, Mbete trying to defend at Reading away a few year ago. Danny Ward closing the keeper down at WBA in the Carlos season where we fucked a 2-0 lead.. Pawel Abbotts goal against Lincoln was a strange but funny one. That one immediately came to mind, too! Here's a HD video(!): |
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Post by jakeg on Sept 17, 2024 22:29:26 GMT 1
Just remembered tom Cowan throwing it directly in the net at Barnsley in about 1996. The ball came into the same orbit as Andy morrison but I'm not sure he can claim any touch!!
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Post by yeti1975 on Sept 18, 2024 8:57:33 GMT 1
This Lee Dixon OG is a personal favourite 😂 perfect chip from distance
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Post by Bubbles on Sept 18, 2024 10:40:42 GMT 1
Just remembered tom Cowan throwing it directly in the net at Barnsley in about 1996. The ball came into the same orbit as Andy morrison but I'm not sure he can claim any touch!! The ref was Gurnam Singh. I was sat by the corner flag and no it didn't touch anybody on its way in. We still lost though,Barnsley on their way to the Premier League! The next time he reffed us he was laughing with the Town fans about it and pretending to take a throw in! |
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Post by araucaria on Sept 18, 2024 18:21:05 GMT 1
Just remembered tom Cowan throwing it directly in the net at Barnsley in about 1996. The ball came into the same orbit as Andy morrison but I'm not sure he can claim any touch!! The ref was Gurnam Singh. I was sat by the corner flag and it no it didn't touch anybody on its way in. We still lost though,Barnsley on their way to the Premier League! The next time he reffed us he was laughing with the Town fans about it and pretending to take a throw in! I haven’t seen anywhere that the goal isn’t credited to Tommy, but who else could it be given to? Lee Sinnott smacked a right foot sizzler into the roof of his own net (an equaliser) against Sheffield United at home, when we won 2-1. |
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Post by menstonterrier on Sept 19, 2024 16:30:22 GMT 1
Was anyone else at Swindon in the early 80s when Andy Rankin caught an in-swinging corner then took two steps backwards, unfortunately over his goal line?
The only goal of the game. Long way to go to see that highlight.
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Post by nicovaesen on Sept 19, 2024 16:48:56 GMT 1
Just remembered tom Cowan throwing it directly in the net at Barnsley in about 1996. The ball came into the same orbit as Andy morrison but I'm not sure he can claim any touch!! I remember that well we were two up weren’t we? Wearing the third yellow Panasonic top. Live on sky? |
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Post by araucaria on Sept 19, 2024 22:11:41 GMT 1
Was anyone else at Swindon in the early 80s when Andy Rankin caught an in-swinging corner then took two steps backwards, unfortunately over his goal line? The only goal of the game. Long way to go to see that highlight. I was there. Our players didn’t think it crossed the line, but Buxton didn’t like his players questioning the ref’s decisions, so we took it on the chin. My only other visit to Swindon was the 2-0 defeat under Bruce, where Gorre was sent off for having a tantrum, certainly funnier than the goal given against Rankin. I didn’t go to Swindon when we won 5-1, of course. Nothing funny about it, but who remembers the injury-time winner for Hull going in off the referee (at the end of the same season as that 1-0 defeat at Swindon)? |
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Post by tepidterrier on Sept 20, 2024 0:21:58 GMT 1
Depoitre against Chelsea is among my favourite Town goals ever, mainly for its significance at the time, but partly for how slapstick it is.
Schindler and Hogg making the perfect angle to both clatter a Chelsea player simultaneously without fouling him, but leaving him dazed flat on his back. The dangling leg of Depoitre to lightly touch the ball into Caballero, followed by the collision where sends him arse over tit quite violently, all while a defender slips in the background. Then after that few seconds of carnage, it being finished off with a little dink over the still off balance defender's head. I couldn't believe what I was seeing at the time.
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Post by nearwildheaven on Sept 21, 2024 15:20:24 GMT 1
Speaking of comedy own goals...
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Post by Bubbles on Sept 21, 2024 15:55:44 GMT 1
Speaking of comedy own goals... Having watched it again Nicholls could’ve easily dived on it and just given the free kick away. No idea why he didn’t. Anyway serves us right for dicking about with it (as it did Bolton last week.) When will teams at this level ever learn..they aren’t good enough to do it! |
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