Great Irish goals I totally forgot about... [Archive]

Charlie Darwin

25/08/2016, 4:31 AM

Paddy Garcia

25/08/2016, 9:46 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g2-ycPW0vU

paul_oshea

25/08/2016, 10:03 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.

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

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

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 (https://youtu.be/iQ2qpdhI6BQ?t=2m7s). 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

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

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

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

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! (https://youtu.be/C91Jeh5GcbE?t=9s)

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

DeLorean

25/08/2016, 3:59 PM

Some lovely stuff by Duffer.

geysir

25/08/2016, 3:59 PM

Post the video or a good description here...

I completely had erased this strike from my memory!

Beauty.

Matty Holland away to Portugal

I'm mystified how that strike could be erased from your memory, as well at it being a crucial goal that game was the seminal one, more so than the Dutch game previous.

It was played in the days when Rte was unobtainable , I had to manually readjust my sat dish towards the Azores in order to tune into a Portugese state channel on Eutelsat. I have it recorded on vhs, I had considered donating it to Worm for his collection but somehow I still have it.

TheOneWhoKnocks

25/08/2016, 4:20 PM

Keith O'Neill v Bolivia in Giants Stadium.

The world was his lobster.

Paddy Garcia

25/08/2016, 5:20 PM

I had to manually readjust my sat dish towards the Azores in order to tune into a Portugese state channel on Eutelsat.

WOW - where do you live Geysir? It was also live on BBC.

Paddy Garcia

25/08/2016, 5:26 PM

Here it is! (https://youtu.be/C91Jeh5GcbE?t=9s)

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.

I watched that at some club in Ealing - showed a few of the games. I think it was Setanta coverage & the commentator seemed to be some guy they grabbed off the street - kept getting the players mixed up!

paul_oshea

25/08/2016, 5:43 PM

Here it is! (https://youtu.be/C91Jeh5GcbE?t=9s)

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.

It was right i felt like he had an age and the goal opened up for him but ya thats it. That sticks out in my memory as one of our biggest misses but we were saved in the last game in the end.

paul_oshea

25/08/2016, 5:46 PM

I can even remember the replay they showed from behind him and he had loads of space and room but that replay doesn't show that.

paul_oshea

25/08/2016, 5:53 PM

Great thread northside stu!

DeLorean

25/08/2016, 6:15 PM

I can even remember the replay they showed from behind him and he had loads of space and room but that replay doesn't show that.

Yeah I remember that replay as I think it clearly showed the keeper getting a touch, or maybe not getting a touch!

geysir

25/08/2016, 6:19 PM

WOW - where do you live Geysir? It was also live on BBC.
Iceland is my home.

Portugal v Ireland was definitely not on BBC satellite platform
Memory is hazy in regards to reasons why but I could only watch Netherlands v Ireland on Eurosport highlights and Portugal V Irl was as mentioned.
I think I could watch the rest of that campaign on sky sports, Estonia away, Giles was the co-commentator.
At least I can remember the effin games and what mattered :)

pineapple stu

25/08/2016, 6:33 PM

Wasn't this thread done a couple of months ago?

Just an observation, mind, not a complaint!

Supreme feet

25/08/2016, 7:04 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGftzsTDfsU

Great strike from John Sheridan.

geysir

25/08/2016, 7:37 PM

To state the obvious, a thread titled "Great Irish goals that I totally forgot about" isn't going to garner a lot of on-topic replies.

Colbert Report

26/08/2016, 12:15 AM

Kevin Doyle's left foot cracker against Slovakia in 2007. Hands down the best goal I've ever seen, there was just something special about it and I couldn't believe he'd tried to pull it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vVu9Q2EgHc

SkStu

26/08/2016, 1:13 AM

I'm mystified how that strike could be erased from your memory, as well at it being a crucial goal that game was the seminal one, more so than the Dutch game previous.

Not sure. I remembered it as soon as I saw it but it is just one that hadn't stuck with me in terms of how good it was...

Great thread northside stu!

Cheers Paul.thought it'd be good for everyone to do a bit of reminiscing instead of the usual "player watch" stuff for a change.

Wasn't this thread done a couple of months ago?

Just an observation, mind, not a complaint!

Not sure! Don't remember it if it was!

To state the obvious, a thread titled "Great Irish goals that I totally forgot about" isn't going to garner a lot of on-topic replies.

I'm pretty happy with the quality of responses. Lots of good memories and goals being shared.

Fergie's Son

26/08/2016, 2:06 AM

Great strike from John Sheridan.

Loved Sheridan as a player. Should have had even more caps.

DeLorean

26/08/2016, 7:52 AM

Wasn't this thread done a couple of months ago?

Just an observation, mind, not a complaint!

I was thinking the same but it may have been this one from two years ago... http://foot.ie/threads/190748-Your-own-favourite-mental-reaction-to-an-Irish-goal

Great strike from John Sheridan.

Super strike. That goal was definitely mentioned somewhere recently enough. I remember comparing it to Steven Gerrard's famous goal against Olympiakos. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN1wgIey2es)

Kevin Doyle's left foot cracker against Slovakia in 2007. Hands down the best goal I've ever seen, there was just something special about it and I couldn't believe he'd tried to pull it off.

I was behind the goals for that one, as the rest of the Irish fans were I guess. Hard to know how he generated so much power from basically a standing start and facing away from goal. Unbelievable goal really. He has a good swing of his left foot, this one wasn't bad either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ZtV7Xj0xk

Fixer82

26/08/2016, 10:45 AM

Great thread. I remember Robbie Keane's thunderbolt in a 1-0 friendly win away to Holland. Andy Reid's decoy run and the whole build up was fantastic! In my opinion Robbie's best ever international goal
https://youtu.be/iaPYtRFofdI

Does anyone remember David Connolly V Turkey in a Lansdowne friendly? Took the ball on edge of the box and made a joke of Turkish defender (Alpay?).
Crazy game where the Turkish sub keeper was a lunatic. Think he was subbed off himself then. Richard Dunne got the equaliser in the dying minutes. No link for that I'm afraid

pineapple stu

26/08/2016, 10:58 AM

Fixer82

26/08/2016, 11:06 AM

Tee hee! Omer Catcin or something. Got a text from a mate at the other side of the ground during the match that I'd be better than him.

Actually had a decent career I think.

Edit - Omer Catkic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96mer_%C3%87atk%C4%B1%C3%A7) it seems.

Nice one. Think he had a few pints before that game. Connolly man of the match as I recall and then didn't play well in the big game V Switzerland that followed

Fixer82

26/08/2016, 11:07 AM

Another two crackers I remember were Quinn and McPhail in US Cup V South Africa. McPhail straight from the corner. Quinn looped a header over keeper iris. Again, can't find a link.

DeLorean

26/08/2016, 11:18 AM

Liam Lawrence doing his best David Beckham impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVQwpZl--Zs

BonnieShels

26/08/2016, 1:38 PM

Liam Lawrence doing his best David Beckham impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVQwpZl--Zs

CAn't see that video but I'm assuming the pass to Whelan for his Goal in Croker v Italy?

Loved Lawrence as a player.

pineapple stu

26/08/2016, 1:43 PM

Nope; the free v South Africa in Thomond.

Not particularly spectacular - he was straight in front of the posts actually. 25m out; would have expected him to score from there. Brave block-down attempt from South Africa initially, but the referee called play back. Gave Lawrence a second go, kicking into a bit of a cross-wind, and in fairness, he struck it cleanly and it went just inside the left post.

geysir

26/08/2016, 1:51 PM

I'm pretty happy with the quality of responses. Lots of good memories and goals being shared.
They are memories of great goals that people remember, goals scored that have not been forgotten.

tetsujin1979

26/08/2016, 3:10 PM

Liam Lawrence doing his best David Beckham impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVQwpZl--Zs

Was at that, lot of people gave it a miss after losing to Australia there, and the ticket prices weren't great either

DeLorean

26/08/2016, 3:17 PM

Was at that, lot of people gave it a miss after losing to Australia there, and the ticket prices weren't great either

Yep... I was one of them. Although I actually got complimentary tickets for the Australia game, not sure I would have went to that either otherwise! The third Ozzie goal was a cracker too actually.

SkStu

26/08/2016, 5:33 PM

They are memories of great goals that people remember, goals scored that have not been forgotten.

okay. Good stuff.

paul_oshea

26/08/2016, 8:10 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGftzsTDfsU

Great strike from John Sheridan.

Our 100th goal? Amd robbie then went on to score 67 all on his own? Is that not enough for any doubters.

I remembered that goal but couldnt remember who it was against. Sheridan was always shooting from around that area, in my mind at least. Thats what i remember him for.

Delores i was pretty sure he didnt get a touch but it looked like he did on first replay but not second in slow motion ;)

If stu is on about important goals he forgot how are there any posts ok this thread at all and how did he even create the first one, if we're all being honest.