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Title: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: jimbob on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 17:08:39
...So after seeing Harry Kane’s headed England goal, I personally love a headed goal, what is your favourite from a Town player?


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 17:10:36
Billy Tuckers equaliser away at Arsenal in 79


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 17:19:41
Loved this

https://www.premierleague.com/video/single/2077335?TAG=Goal%20of%20the%20Day


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: jimbob on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 17:42:00
I wasn’t at the away leg in 79 and apparently pissed my pants at the home leg (I was 27 🤥 )


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 17:44:20
I wasn’t at the away leg in 79 and apparently pissed my pants at the home leg (I was 27 🤥 )

I was 16 and skipped school in the afternoon to queue up outside the Town end😀
I've never managed to locate any footage of the away goal


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: jimbob on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 17:45:04
Loved this

https://www.premierleague.com/video/single/2077335?TAG=Goal%20of%20the%20Day

Great to get a last minute equaliser and OST inevitably put his head in sometimes where it hurts. I’m trying to recall a Duncan Shearer belting header but the old memory ain’t what it used to be 😞


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: 4D on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:05:24
2 mins and 5 mins.  :toocool:

https://youtu.be/iPcHz--mmwk


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Quagmire on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:08:19
Sam Ricketts v Sheffield United

https://youtu.be/PCLBFjd2-mA

Aden Flint v Brentford

https://youtu.be/PeSog4A-exQ


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:10:22
Billy Tuckers equaliser away at Arsenal in 79
This, unfortunately no highlights have ever turned up of it.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: DiV on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:12:23
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ6QmP5Zeto

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Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: SirWinston on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:14:50
https://youtu.be/LvxRkMk5eh8
Madge Mitchell scoring the second in this.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:15:36
20 seconds in to this scored by Big Simon Gibson in the 7-0 at Kettering in 83, nothing was going to stop him, like a steam train!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ujeTkTNg0&t=70s


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Frigby Daser on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:16:43
 
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https://youtu.be/LvxRkMk5eh8
Madge Mitchell scoring the second in this.

This is my all time favourite.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:18:33
This, unfortunately no highlights have ever turned up of it.

It's quite surprising JJ that HTV West don't have any away footage considering it was a quarter final and against a really big club


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Munichred on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:23:19
It's quite surprising JJ that HTV West don't have any away footage considering it was a quarter final and against a really big club
AFAIR it was a near post header from a right-wing corner. Doesn't really help much, I know...


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Bedford Red on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:23:34


This is my all time favourite.

Mine too


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:24:23
Not the best headers but here are 2 headed Town goals for the price of one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5CxH1SVovE&t=237s


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Legends-Lounge on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:54:28
AFAIR it was a near post header from a right-wing corner. Doesn't really help much, I know...

Concur.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 18:58:22
AFAIR it was a near post header from a right-wing corner. Doesn't really help much, I know...

https://twohundredpercent.net/bad-things-arsenal-may-1980/

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There were 38,000 people at Highbury for this League Cup match, including 7,000 from Swindon. Arsenal took the lead with a disputed penalty in the eighth minute, converted by Alan Sunderland following a foul on Frank Stapleton. Swindon, however, didn’t buckle, and with six minutes left to play substitute Billy Tucker, a defender who’d only been on the pitch for ten minutes, headed in an Alan Mayes corner to force a replay in Wiltshire. Another replay, with the team still in the European Cup Winners Cup, the FA Cup still to come, and a 42 match league season to complete.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 19:04:45
https://twohundredpercent.net/bad-things-arsenal-may-1980/


Damn i was hoping Arsenal may have had some footage😀


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 19:04:47
Changing the subject a bit....

While having a deep search for the Tucker goal anywhere I found this interesting piece on Swindon by a Forest fan, goes into a lot of detail and is an interesting read.

http://forest40yearsago.blogspot.com/2018/01/swindon-this-is-swindon-in-fa-cup.html


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 19:28:26
Changing the subject a bit....

While having a deep search for the Tucker goal anywhere I found this interesting piece on Swindon by a Forest fan, goes into a lot of detail and is an interesting read.

http://forest40yearsago.blogspot.com/2018/01/swindon-this-is-swindon-in-fa-cup.html

Great read JJ and I'll still stick with the late 70's was my most enjoyable time watching this proud club to date.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: ibelieveinmrreeves on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 19:35:52
That Sheff Utd play off game is still the spawniest win, possibly by any team ever.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 19:47:25
That Sheff Utd play off game is still the spawniest win, possibly by any team ever.

That makes up for us getting robbed away at Wolves in the cup semi in 1980😀


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: kerslakeisgod on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 19:56:18
Only 1 Shaun Taylor.......Wembley  no need for video you have all seen it. Best goal ever !!!!!!


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: kaufman on Sunday, March 28, 2021, 19:58:16
https://youtu.be/Sq6k5ANzStY

Summerbee to Fjortoft 1994
12 minutes in


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: TheDukeOfBanbury on Monday, March 29, 2021, 07:51:20
Billy Tuckers equaliser away at Arsenal in 79

Gets my vote every time.
What a night that was. Can still see Ian Miller standing next to us ready to take the corner, I saw Billy Tucker in the air, meet the ball and it was like a bullet.
I didn’t see anything after that. The Clock End that night moved. Health & Safety out the window :)
It was simply mental celebrations and probably the wildest following a goal. How nobody www crushed as a pile of bodies everywhere.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: TheDukeOfBanbury on Monday, March 29, 2021, 07:53:21
I was 16 and skipped school in the afternoon to queue up outside the Town end😀
I've never managed to locate any footage of the away goal

I got the slipper at school the next day as we bunked the last lesson and jumped over the fence into the cemetery. Caught the early train and the queues were massive even at around 6pm.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: TheDukeOfBanbury on Monday, March 29, 2021, 07:55:30
https://twohundredpercent.net/bad-things-arsenal-may-1980/


Didn’t Miller take it?


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: welshred on Monday, March 29, 2021, 07:56:35
https://youtu.be/LvxRkMk5eh8
Madge Mitchell scoring the second in this.

I was Town mascot for that game. Great goal scored against future England number 1, David James.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, March 29, 2021, 08:18:47
Gets my vote every time.
What a night that was. Can still see Ian Miller standing next to us ready to take the corner, I saw Billy Tucker in the air, meet the ball and it was like a bullet.
I didn’t see anything after that. The Clock End that night moved. Health & Safety out the window :)
It was simply mental celebrations and probably the wildest following a goal. How nobody www crushed as a pile of bodies everywhere.

Great memories Duke and like you say it was mental at the clock end and after the game we counted over 100 coaches parked up by the railway line which is now the Emirates


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, March 29, 2021, 08:20:14
I got the slipper at school the next day as we bunked the last lesson and jumped over the fence into the cemetery. Caught the early train and the queues were massive even at around 6pm.

We got detention Duke just Ike two rounds earlier when we bunked off to go to Plough Lane


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Mister Lorenzo on Monday, March 29, 2021, 08:54:05
Steve Foley's diving header against Leeds at home in the early 90's.... Loved that!!


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Monday, March 29, 2021, 09:09:52
Didn’t Miller take it?
Miller used to take the right footed ones and Mayes the left IIRC.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Wobbly Bob on Monday, March 29, 2021, 09:33:47
OST could have a thread dedicated just to his booming headers.
Watched the highlights of the 4-6 v Brum last night and could have sworn before that his header was off the sweet spot of the bandage that was applied when he had to go off for treatment in the first half.
No sign of a bandage so apparently not. The passage of time muddies the waters I guess.

Must be way out in front for the most stitches applied during a Town career.
One of the Sunday papers had the best description of him, "teak hard".


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Monday, March 29, 2021, 09:45:08
45 mins into this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE4jKbVFPTE&t=2723s

6 foot 2 eyes of blue big Jon Gittens after you, nothign was going to stop him getting to that ball first!

And another diving header from the late great big man at Boremuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yDAWR6PkDw&t=43s


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey on Monday, March 29, 2021, 09:57:29
Pretty sure Jon Gittens didn’t have blue eyes!


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: 4D on Monday, March 29, 2021, 10:07:06
OST could have a thread dedicated just to his booming headers.
Watched the highlights of the 4-6 v Brum last night and could have sworn before that his header was off the sweet spot of the bandage that was applied when he had to go off for treatment in the first half.
No sign of a bandage so apparently not. The passage of time muddies the waters I guess.

Must be way out in front for the most stitches applied during a Town career.
One of the Sunday papers had the best description of him, "teak hard".

I was at the bandage game, it was a home game. He jogged off, got patched up and jogged back out. No messing  :)


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Monday, March 29, 2021, 10:18:20
Pretty sure Jon Gittens didn’t have blue eyes!
He did in the song!


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey on Monday, March 29, 2021, 10:33:19
 Wasn’t the original about some Man Utd CB - Jim Holton?


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Monday, March 29, 2021, 10:35:36
Wasn’t the original about some Man Utd CB - Jim Holton?
I believe that to be true yes, sung then onwards by every club in the UK it would seem!


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey on Monday, March 29, 2021, 10:41:23
 Just looked him up. Died of a heart attack aged just 42



Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: THE FLASH on Monday, March 29, 2021, 11:28:17
Amazing game and glad to say that i was there.

the crazy result rather over shadowed Maskells incredible lobbed header.

I do enjoy a bullet but this was something else...there is a goal by George Best that does the rounds but this is just as good....one minute in.

https://youtu.be/xgCKc7MCDDo


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Exiled Bob on Monday, March 29, 2021, 12:17:05
Steve Foley against Leeds, 1990, is one I vividly remember, mainly because of the beautiful outside of the foot cross from David Kerslake.
A game that also included a MacLaren thunderbolt special that would make the top 10 of "from outside the area" goals as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bazkfzV9_g


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Monday, March 29, 2021, 12:52:26
Steve Foley against Leeds, 1990, is one I vividly remember, mainly because of the beautiful outside of the foot cross from David Kerslake.
A game that also included a MacLaren thunderbolt special that would make the top 10 of "from outside the area" goals as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bazkfzV9_g

I was there as I was for every game between 1983 and 1999 but have no recollection of that game, goals or result!


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: RedRag on Monday, March 29, 2021, 12:57:19
Billy Tucker's and Aden Flint's were both massive and thunderous and equally enjoyed at the time.

Billy's edges it because the outcome eventually fell our way.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Tails on Monday, March 29, 2021, 13:23:28
Strange one but Rory Fallons last minute diving header against Colchester sticks out in my mind, got a feeling it was boxing day 05/06 (one of our many relegations seasons from L1). We were bottom & utter garbage at the time and Colchester were doing really well, and particularly smug about it given they pinched Cureton on loan and he turned into Ronaldo. It was just a much needed win and I remember the celebrations in the Town End being akin to a playoff win.

https://youtu.be/m-3FflWNPO0

EDIT - I thought I remembered there being a thread simply about the goal and I was right! http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=8600.0


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Exiled Bob on Monday, March 29, 2021, 13:42:34
I was there as I was for every game between 1983 and 1999 but have no recollection of that game, goals or result!
I probably remember games more from the 80s and up to the mid-90s than practically any of the games that I've been to since (aside from the Di Canio period). Ok, I haven't been to that many since 98, having lived in France since then but I'm sure the football back then was much more memorable, even the early 80s when we were really dismal. Probably because I was younger and more of a fan back then.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: Peter Venkman on Monday, March 29, 2021, 14:08:37
I probably remember games more from the 80s and up to the mid-90s than practically any of the games that I've been to since (aside from the Di Canio period). Ok, I haven't been to that many since 98, having lived in France since then but I'm sure the football back then was much more memorable, even the early 80s when we were really dismal. Probably because I was younger and more of a fan back then.
Similar to me, I remember almost every game I went to in the 80s and 90s but I moved away and have not been to many games since 2001 when I moved 120 miles away for Swindon, in the years since I have probably only been in person to 50 games in the last 20 years until the advent of iFollow where I have since only missed 2 games in 4 years.

Thats why its odd that I have no recollection of that game at all not even the thunderbolt from the fat controller.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: DiV on Monday, March 29, 2021, 14:09:25
Strange one but Rory Fallons last minute diving header against Colchester sticks out in my mind, got a feeling it was boxing day 05/06 (one of our many relegations seasons from L1). We were bottom & utter garbage at the time and Colchester were doing really well, and particularly smug about it given they pinched Cureton on loan and he turned into Ronaldo. It was just a much needed win and I remember the celebrations in the Town End being akin to a playoff win.

https://youtu.be/m-3FflWNPO0

EDIT - I thought I remembered there being a thread simply about the goal and I was right! http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=8600.0

....then a month later we sold him.


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: adje on Monday, March 29, 2021, 15:21:13
https://youtu.be/pLPMlnyA4kQ
And against them too


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: flammableBen on Monday, March 29, 2021, 15:30:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Qod5bunXM&t=183s

3mins in. classic


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: adje on Monday, March 29, 2021, 15:42:17
Great thread by the way!


Title: Re: Best headed STFC goal you’ve ever seen...and go...preferably with a link
Post by: ibelieveinmrreeves on Monday, March 29, 2021, 20:14:13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Qod5bunXM&t=183s

3mins in. classic

My first ever match. I'll never forget that goal!