The best goal we ever scored

[Giordano]

The best goal we ever scored was Mick Channon versus Liverpool.

 

24th April 1982, almost exactly 28 years ago.

 

I was there.

 

It was a thing of beauty. Something you have to watch decades of average football just see once or twice live in front of your eyes.

 

Younger Saints fans......look at the players, see the team sheet, watch the goal. THAT is our club. THAT is our football. THAT is part of our history.

 

Its on Youtube...c/o Archersroad channel.

 

Agghhhhhhhhhh.......lovely lovely....

[Saint_clark]

[Giordano]

" you won't see a better goal than that this season"....lol

 

Thank you Saint clark for my oversight!

 

I love it when commentator (maddeningly cant get his name - is it Motson? ) goes "Holmes, Armstrong, Keegan, Ball, Keegan, Armstrong, Baker, Keegan, Channon......"...all the time liverpool are chasing shadows....theres a bit of short passing, there's a long ball, there's a dribble, there's some one twos, there's a header, there's a wide ball, there's a cut inside, there's a half volley finish....there's a spin off blind pass, there's a lobbed header passs...jeez there's everything in the goal except may be a back heel! And in the background you can hear MC going something along the lines of " its quite a nice goal that was " or similar....lovely.

Edited 19 April, 2010 by Giordano
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[Turkish]

two things that stand out about that goal are firstly the speed off passing and movement, the Liverpool players are putting the saints players under loads of pressure but every pass is spot on, quick, and movement first class again what was the best team in Europe, if not the world at that time. Also look at David Armstrongs contribution, he starts the move off on the edge of his own penalty area and then turns up on the edge of the Liverpool area to overhead kick to Keegan, a great great goal.

[Pugwash]

Did the BBC have 'Goal of the Season' then and did this win it?

[St Landrew]

" you won't see a better goal than that this season"....lol

 

Thank you Saint clark for my oversight!

 

I love it when commentator (maddeningly cant get his name - is it Motson? ) goes "Holmes, Armstrong, Keegan, Ball, Keegan, Armstrong, Baker, Keegan, Channon......"...all the time liverpool are chasing shadows....theres a bit of short passing, there's a long ball, there's a dribble, there's some one twos, there's a header, there's a wide ball, there's a cut inside, there's a half volley finish....there's a spin off blind pass, there's a lobbed header passs...jeez there's everything in the goal except may be a back heel! And in the background you can hear MC going something along the lines of " its quite a nice goal that was " or similar....lovely.

 

No bloody thank you. We wouldn't want Motty's bloody tones all over that goal. It was Gerald Sinstadt.

[Giordano]

Turkish- quite right.

 

That Liverpool team were reigning Division One champions, won the League Cup and charity shield that year and were reigning European Cup (now Champions League) holders. That probably made them the best team on the planet in 1982.

 

And that goal destroyed them with total football.

 

Its the equivalent of us doing that to Barcelona today - not Man utd as i think Liverpool were more dominant at that time than man utd are today.

[Giordano]

thank goodness....thank you St. Landrew....it was bugging me!

[mightysaints]

The game was on ITV at the time. It came second in the goal of the season. Suprise suprise Liverpool got goal of the season but it was so biased as Ian St John was the judge.

[saint_stevo]

i am often told by my Dad and his mates that the best goal we never scored was KK v Man Utd.....

[John B]

The Best Goal I ever saw was the Terry Paine one at Leyton Orient in 1966 which gained us Promotion in 1966

[niceandfriendly]

Jason Dodd against Portsmouth for me.

 

No but seriously, that Channon goal is magical.

[Turkish]

i am often told by my Dad and his mates that the best goal we never scored was KK v Man Utd.....

 

 

this one, disallowed for offside against Armstrong i think, what a joke.

[Block 5]

This goal was recently included in the Guardian's list of best goals of all time.

I think there may be a thread somewhere.

[Window Cleaner]

Danny Wallace's overhead kick against Liverpool is my favourite.

 

Pity it's not on youtube or anything,game was televised I think..

[Badger]

MLT's first v Newcastle 1993(or 4?) is my favourite individual goal, but the Channon v Liverpool is easily the best team goal.

 

If I have to come off the fence,perhaps Channon's goal shades it for several bits of individual brilliance..the overhead kick by Armstrong who incredibly is also involved in the start of the build up...how much ground did Armstrong,Channon and Keegan make up for that move?...and the wheeling arm celebration to end it..

[ottery st mary]

Bobby Stokes (RIP) at Wemberlee 1976.........

 

For some strange reason......A Danny Wallace goal at Highbury Saints 1-0.....About 20 years ago?

[exeter_saint]

Although clearly not the best goal we have ever scored, Lallana's effort at loftus road in the 4-1 defeat to QPR last season was quite a special move, probably my favourtie team goal since the relegation

[jam]

Although clearly not the best goal we have ever scored, Lallana's effort at loftus road in the 4-1 defeat to QPR last season was quite a special move, probably my favourtie team goal since the relegation

 

Cracking goal, I've looked for video of it online but without success. Anyone got a link?

[Pav]

 

i could just quite happily sit at work all day watching that on endless repeat.

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

Danny Wallace's overhead kick against Liverpool is my favourite.

 

Pity it's not on youtube or anything,game was televised I think..

 

Yeah it was a televised match on a Friday night. It won goal of the season.

[jam]

MLT's first v Newcastle 1993(or 4?) is my favourite individual goal, but the Channon v Liverpool is easily the best team goal.

 

If I have to come off the fence,perhaps Channon's goal shades it for several bits of individual brilliance..the overhead kick by Armstrong who incredibly is also involved in the start of the build up...how much ground did Armstrong,Channon and Keegan make up for that move?...and the wheeling arm celebration to end it..

 

There was a game a month or so ago (can't remember which) in which Papa got criticised on here for sticking a good chance over the bar. However the move was started by Papa himself on the edge of our box by nicking the ball from an opposition attacker and quickly switching the play to Harding.

 

If if if if if, I know, but it would have been sweet if he'd managed to put it away properly.

[jam]

 

Love the way Keegan nods it across to Channon to put it away. It was almost as if he was saying 'we're not done yet'...

[rick1976.4.38]

booby stokes,time,4.38 1976 best goal ever scored by saints.may he rip.otherwise kk against manure but sadly disallowed

[tttdcs]

Seeing Keith Cassells in that, did'nt we try to sign Trevor Francis from Man City about this time?

 

Makes you wonder what a team that would have been :-)

[Giordano]

poetic football.....total football.......guys that never got the chance to watch those early to mid eighties saints teams im sorry for you but at least we have the vids........i dont think we will see those kind of players at Saints for a long time.....plus, again for those that cant remember the Dell ( and especially Archers road) can you see how Channon smashed the ball so hard it looks like it can virtually hit the supporters the other side of the nets? Yes, we were that close to the pitch them days.....i think what really tops it off though is Channons windmill and smiling run direct into camera,great telly, copied, incidentally, by Marco Tardelli when he scored THAT goal against Germany in the 1982 World Cup Final only a few months later - direct rip off i reckons...Tardelli must have been watching Channon and thought- ooh that looks a good un if i scores...

[Turkish]

Seeing Keith Cassells in that, did'nt we try to sign Trevor Francis from Man City about this time?

 

Makes you wonder what a team that would have been :-)

 

you are quite right, we did, not sure why it never happened, what a team that would have been, we were a player short of being a championship winning side during the 81-84 period.

[Badger]

you are quite right, we did, not sure why it never happened, what a team that would have been, we were a player short of being a championship winning side during the 81-84 period.

 

I was told by a Man City fan at the time,and have since read that Lawrie and John Bond came to an agreement after Lawrie agreed to let Steve Williams go to City(plus cash adjustment).The then City chairman Peter Swales vetoed it in fear of a backlash from their fans.

[Supersubpuckett]

Danny Wallace's overhead kick against Liverpool is my favourite.

 

Pity it's not on youtube or anything,game was televised I think..

 

It is;

 

 

I was there - amazing night

[david in sweden]

The best goal we ever scored was Mick Channon versus Liverpool.

 

24th April 1982, almost exactly 28 years ago. I was there.

It was a thing of beauty. Something you have to watch decades of average football just see once or twice live in front of your eyes.

Younger Saints fans......look at the players, see the team sheet, watch the goal. THAT is our club. THAT is our football. THAT is part of our history.

Its on Youtube...c/o Archersroad channel. Agghhhhhhhhhh....lovely lovely....

 

On the original video I saw it was a 14 ..or was it 17 pass move. From the team effort / skill point of view it is clearly a worthy winner.

 

.....but many others are worth a look, too. Some great long-distance shot are memorable. The infamous 40 yard left foot effort from Brian O'Neil is still a favourite amongst older fans, as is that Ivan Golac screamer into the Archers Road goal.

A deceiving 35 yarder from Nick Holmes that sailed inside the post at The Milton End looked like slow-motion at the time.(forgot the opposition.)

 

However, it would be difficult to say which of a dozen efforts from Matt Le Tissier was the best...I could watch them forever.

[Ohio Saint]

What is it with all the early 80's videos on these threads lately!?....Don't get me wrong, I'm loving it!!! Man, we were good.

[Rut]

What is it with all the early 80's videos on these threads lately!?....Don't get me wrong, I'm loving it!!! Man, we were good.

 

Agreed. I've just watched a fair few old games I hadn't seen for ages.

 

The one I enjoyed most was this one - I won't give the score away in case someone doesn't know it. It obviously does have a happy ending but man, did we make it hard for ourselves...

 

Man Utd v Saints. FA Cup 1992:

 

Was this Branfoot's finest hour? Stuart Gray scoring as well.

 

(shame about the Pompey goal at the end of this but ho-hum - they lost in the end).

 

Thanks to the people who are putting these up on YouTube. Great stuff.

 

As for best ever Saints goal? Can't disagree with the OP. That goal had everything.

[bender]

 

this one, disallowed for offside against Armstrong i think, what a joke.

 

"a little touch here for ***" "and a lovely ball in" etc etc. Brian Moore was a legend.

[Pilchards]

Yes that Channon goal was special.

He even scored it with his very weak left peg!

 

I remember about 10 years after that happened it came on a sports channel, they showed the goal and I bursted out 'You won't see a better goal.......'

About 5 seconds before the commentator said it and the 10 guys in the room looked at me as they was impressed with my knowledge.

[ericofarabia]

Turkish- quite right.

 

That Liverpool team were reigning Division One champions, won the League Cup and charity shield that year and were reigning European Cup (now Champions League) holders. That probably made them the best team on the planet in 1982.

 

And that goal destroyed them with total football.

 

Its the equivalent of us doing that to Barcelona today - not Man utd as i think Liverpool were more dominant at that time than man utd are today.

 

But not a patch on some of the Total Football we served up last year with the dynamic Dutch Duo

[beatlesaint]

i am often told by my Dad and his mates that the best goal we never scored was KK v Man Utd.....

 

Your Dad and his mates are spot on.

The best one that counted however was the Channon v. Liverpool one without doubt.

[LA77]

15 passes before we scored. What a fantastic goal.

[Crouch Ender]

The Channon goal gets a nice little write-up in a Guardian piece from last year about great team goals - it's no.3 on the list:

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/jul/17/joy-of-six-great-team-goals

[Giordano]

I was there.....it was delirium for a moment....i could not believe Keegan had scored that wonder goal for us v man utd.......it was like finding the Holy Grail.....but then the ref disallowed it and twas like the knight saying "you have chosen......unwisely" or whatever it was in Indiana jones...

[MbaleSaint]

The Channon goal is definitely the best team goal I've seen Saints score (shame we lost the match 3-2) but for individual goals MLT must have the top five, with a special mention for Nick Holmes lang-range effort against Liverpool (in a 3-2 win) and, of course, Barry Horne. Oh, and Steve Moran against Leeds when he beat 4 or 5 defenders and then the keeper.

[Legod Third Coming]

Danny Wallace's overhead kick against Liverpool is my favourite.

 

Pity it's not on youtube or anything,game was televised I think..

 

It was, on a Friday night. I was 13/14 and in dreamland. And all the peopel in the flats turned their lights on and off to upset Brucie!!

[Legod Third Coming]

 

this one, disallowed for offside against Armstrong i think, what a joke.

 

This was the best goal I ever saw, ever. And to think today it would have stood.... this is such a great thread. Possibly had the time of my life during this period - not that I begrudge the wife and kids...

[Legod Third Coming]

It is;

 

 

I was there - amazing night

 

My friend thank you. That brought a tear to me eye. The first game I remember being allowed to go to on my own. I stood behind that overhead kick and watched it all the way in...

 

I hope that the young lads today have the same pleassure of watching our team as I had then - magical times, truly magical.

 

We simply played the best football in the league. And I think we do today as well.

[explorer saint]

My Favourites until Iremember some more

 

1. Barry Horne v Bolton

2. Mick Channon v Liverpool

3. Ivan Golac v WBA

4. Le Tiss v Newcastle

[warsash saint]

My favs that I was actually there to witness

 

Matt's goal vs Blacburn where he made Timmy look a tw*t

Matt's pair vs Newcastle to shut Branfoot up

 

But my fav has to go to Ivan Golac vs West Brom......was sat right behind Golac when he hit it & i swear I have never seen a ball move as much as that did