Great Irish goals I totally forgot about...

**SkStu** · 24/08/2016, 11:54 PM

Post the video or a good description here...

I completely had erased this strike from my memory!

Beauty.

Matty Holland away to Portugal

**Charlie Darwin** · 25/08/2016, 4:31 AM

I didn't forget that goal because it's imprinted in my mind, but what I'd give for the days an Irish midfielder would have that kind of space to shoot from there in an important competitive game. We were blessed to have players like Keane, Holland and Kinsella who could make things like that happen.

**Paddy Garcia** · 25/08/2016, 9:46 AM

**paul_oshea** · 25/08/2016, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

I didn't forget that goal because it's imprinted in my mind, but what I'd give for the days an Irish midfielder would have that kind of space to shoot from there in an important competitive game. We were blessed to have players like Keane, Holland and Kinsella who could make things like that happen.

I remember it well cos i was in the bleeding horse, and just before he scored i went to go to the toilet and one of the lads was getting thick with me, for some reason i dont know he was thick for no good reason and started throwing water on me. the dick. I really enjoyed that goal, not that many watching it in the back of the bleeding horse.

**DeLorean** · 25/08/2016, 10:11 AM

I was in the pub for that one too, think it was a Saturday night... the goal was wonderfully out of the blue. I saw Matty in the station in Paris actually while waiting for the train to Bordeaux. Thankfully I was sober so I refrained from plaguing him for a photo and so on.

**paul_oshea** · 25/08/2016, 10:18 AM

It was most definitely a Saturday. My cousin actually went to it I think.

We didn't do much really in that game, and it was kind of against the run of play too. I have it in my head as the 75th or 76th minute or possibly even the 77th. But I do remembre it around that time, usually i always seem to add on a couple of minutes through nostalgia when it comes to irelands goal in these important games.

Ara, if they are doing media work at these things they half expect it. Granted there was a lot of Irish in France so its not like a normal away game where usually only a few hundred, and you only get to see a few of those. You will often see Whelan and houghton out and they are more than happy to pose for photos. We had great craic with Eoin hand and George hamilton and I think Gabriel Egan over in bulgaria one time. Hand kept asking us quietly to ask Gabriel Egan for a photo actually, which I thought was very nice.

**DeLorean** · 25/08/2016, 10:22 AM

That seems about right and yeah we were doing nothing at all. It kind of balanced out the Dutch game before it where we were unlucky enough to only draw.

This is possibly a pretty underrated finish from Quinn. The first goal from Townsend was nicely worked too.

**gastric** · 25/08/2016, 10:31 AM

Can't ever forget Tony Grealish's goal against Cyprus, can't find a link, can anyone else? I am sure he scored from about 75 metres out. It's amazing how your imagination plays tricks!

**paul_oshea** · 25/08/2016, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by DeLorean

That seems about right and yeah we were doing nothing at all. It kind of balanced out the Dutch game before it where we were unlucky enough to only draw.

This is possibly a pretty underrated finish from Quinn. The first goal from Townsend was nicely worked too.

Ya but quinn so often missed as he did score. He really frustrated me. i never saw the parameter for youtube before ?t=2m7s - I was going to ask how you did that, you learn something new every day!

**BonnieShels** · 25/08/2016, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

I remember it well cos i was in the bleeding horse, and just before he scored i went to go to the toilet and one of the lads was getting thick with me, for some reason i dont know he was thick for no good reason and started throwing water on me. the dick. I really enjoyed that goal, not that many watching it in the back of the bleeding horse.

Did you tell him he wasn't a real supporter for watching it in the pub?

Come on POSH we all know you instigated it!

**tetsujin1979** · 25/08/2016, 10:46 AM

I was living in Dublin at the time of the Yugoslavia game, not far from Lansdowne Road, but there was no tickets to be had so I watched it in the flat with my flatmates and a friend of ours. He got hammered and ended up staying the night. When he woke up the next morning, he asked me "how drunk was I last night? Did Ireland really score two cracking goals?"

I remember that Portugal game well, watched it in Quinn's in Limerick. Friend of mine had just started a new job as a security guard and had to miss the game, but he walked into the pub still in his work uniform around half time. He told us that the office had let him leave for a bit to watch the second half. Full time came and went and he told us he was ok to stay until last orders, and had drank about two pints at this stage. Last orders came and went, but he told use he was ok to go out, and then he went to a nightclub with us. One of the lads told me a few weeks later he'd heard him in one of the cubicles in Quinn's on his radio back to the office, "no, it's all quiet here, no need to come out". Unsurprisingly, he lost his job a few weeks later.

**Stuttgart88** · 25/08/2016, 10:51 AM

I really liked Ian Harte's header at home to Denmark and Liam Miller's shot against Sweden. Both friendlies though.

**DeLorean** · 25/08/2016, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Ya but quinn so often missed as he did score. He really frustrated me.

Obviously the brain-foot coordination is going to be a more difficult task for a guy of 6'4, but he had so many really huge moments. Equalisers against the Dutch, at Wembley and against Denmark probably the pick of his goals in terms of importance and you could throw the assists for Robbie against Germany & Spain in Japan into the mix as well.

**paul_oshea** · 25/08/2016, 3:04 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

I was living in Dublin at the time of the Yugoslavia game, not far from Lansdowne Road, but there was no tickets to be had so I watched it in the flat with my flatmates and a friend of ours. He got hammered and ended up staying the night. When he woke up the next morning, he asked me "how drunk was I last night? Did Ireland really score two cracking goals?"

I remember that Portugal game well, watched it in Quinn's in Limerick. Friend of mine had just started a new job as a security guard and had to miss the game, but he walked into the pub still in his work uniform around half time. He told us that the office had let him leave for a bit to watch the second half, but then he stayed until last orders, and then he went to a nightclub with us. One of the lads told me later he'd heard him in one of the cubicles in Quinn's on his radio back to the office, "no, it's all quiet here, no need to come out". Unsurprisingly, he lost his job a few weeks later.

Thats a brilliant story, tets. I never knew you worked as a Security Guard.

I think Stutts just wanted to throw out obscure ones just to show off how great his memory is, as he hasn't told us enough times before.

Ya but the spain miss in the same group was brutal as that score against Denmark.

**DeLorean** · 25/08/2016, 3:33 PM

Totally forgot that Spain miss actually. Definitely made up for it by equalising against Denmark though.

**Stuttgart88** · 25/08/2016, 3:38 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Thats a brilliant story, tets. I never knew you worked as a Security Guard.

I think Stutts just wanted to throw out obscure ones just to show off how great his memory is, as he hasn't told us enough times before.

Ya but the spain miss in the same group was brutal as that score against Denmark.

Even after being reminded, I can't remember the Spain miss!

**DeLorean** · 25/08/2016, 3:48 PM

Think he was through one on one and tried to put is low to Zubizarreta's left but it went a fraction past the post, the keeper may have even got a touch. It took me a few minutes to remember it too, I think I have the right one anyway.

**Stuttgart88** · 25/08/2016, 3:53 PM

nah, no recollection at all!

**DeLorean** · 25/08/2016, 3:54 PM

Here it is!

I actually pictured it at the other end of the pitch, I wonder was this the reverse angle to the televised coverage at the time.

**Stuttgart88** · 25/08/2016, 3:55 PM

Here's the Ian Harte goal though, one of several TV-friendly goals he got. It was all Duffer really, he was exceptional that night. I recall clearly!

https://youtu.be/HeVAP3WJ02U