Don Rogers 1973 and Kenny Stroud 1977 Goal's of the Season

[Bedford Red]

These clips i've put on YouTube today show Don Rogers in 1973 (playing for Palace then) & Kenny Stroud in 1977 featuring in "The Big Match's" Goal of the Season.

[alanmayes]

Thanks Bedford, i've waited a long time to see the Don's goal of the season again.

I think he actually score a couple in the match,the final one where he took it around
the goalkeeper in a 1 on 1 was sublime.

[Reg Smeeton]

Thanks Bedford, i've waited a long time to see the Don's goal of the season again.

I think he actually score a couple in the match,the final one where he took it around
the goalkeeper in a 1 on 1 was sublime.

Don had that rare dribbling skill, that made defenders look a bit silly....Messi does it today.

Good to see Dudley Tyler playing for West Ham....a talented lad who played for Pinehurst for years as he had a hole in the heart condition...medical science at teh time was slow to realise you could still function as an athlete with it.

[alanmayes]

Looking at the list of goalscorers,interesting to note that The Don and Stan Bowles eventually
played together at QPR.Sadly,the Don's hip meant they never saw the best of him.

Asa Hartford also suffered from a hole in the heart and it scuppered his move to Leeds at that time.

[Reg Smeeton]

Looking at the list of goalscorers,interesting to note that The Don and Stan Bowles eventually
played together at QPR.Sadly,the Don's hip meant they never saw the best of him.

Asa Hartford also suffered from a hole in the heart and it scuppered his move to Leeds at that time.

True about Hartford, I remember seeing him playing for Stockport at the CG when he was about 40. Think he was player manager....so it didn't prevent him having a long career.

[Wilf Shergold]

Don had that rare dribbling skill, that made defenders look a bit silly....Messi does it today.

I was told The Don could dislocate, and then relocate, his hip which gave him his unique ability to swivel his body and make the fullback look a muppet. Not that he did this medical manoeuvre on purpose of course.

Some years after he retired he came on in a charity match on the old training ground. He could hardly walk (out of necessity, unlike the current shower who do it on purpose) but still managed to chip the keeper from 25 yards. One of the finest goals I saw him score.

The only player who got the better of him in my view was the great – yes, and how we could do with someone like him – Harry Cripps of Millwall. Put The Don half way up the terraces after a couple of minutes and that was that for the rest of the game.

[leefer]

Enjoyed that,like the match also where he ran Man Utd ragged,surely the best player not to play for England.

[magicroundabout]

goal B - Stan Bowells. AKA David Prutton

[RedRag]

Really enjoyed that Bedford Red.

The Don - his critics would point out he drifted out of games and he sure could look disinterested and disconnected. 

Brilliantly, Don manages that look in your goal clip against Stoke  - runs the length of the pitch, drifts clean past two men who don't even get close to him as he makes his way to the penalty area, wearily beats the keeper with no drama whatsoever and just about summons the energy to raise his arm halfway up to "acknowledge" the goal of the season in the top flight for 1973.

Only the Don could be so matter of fact about his own talent and he will always be our's.  I bloody hope we get a statue of him when we do get the new ground

[leefer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Tyler

Interesting that Reg,first i heard of him.
Big bucks they paid for a non league player and he is still alive aged 66.

[Hitchinred]

When Douglas hit the bar on Saturday I thought to myself that it might have been the best goal scored at that end since Kenny Stroud.

[Arch Stanton]

Jesus, that Derek Hales looks a scary fella, that mugshot of him over Brian Moore's shoulder is just wrong.

He looks a bit rapey to me.

(And Derek, if you're reading this, I'm sure you really are a nice guy, and not at all rapey)