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Title: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Tokyo Sexwhale on May 05, 2013, 04:08:52 PM
Did I miss it, or was there no Goal of the Month competition for April on MOTD last night?

Was waiting to see if they went for Lowton, or whether they left it up to Alan Hansen's pick - Remy.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: not3bad on May 05, 2013, 04:10:56 PM
I would also want to see if Ron Vlaar and Andi Weimann's goals against Sunderland made the final list.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Surrey Villan on May 05, 2013, 04:46:40 PM
If they are going to have a Goal Of The Season on the last day they will have to have Goal Of The Month next week. Anyway it is sure to be Robin Van Persie or one from a selection of Gareth Bale efforts.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: not3bad on May 05, 2013, 04:51:32 PM
Anyway it is sure to be Robin Van Persie or one from a selection of Gareth Bale efforts.

Indeed.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: neo_Villan on May 05, 2013, 05:05:02 PM
Think it will be the RVP one against us. Great assist, great technique, great goal.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on May 05, 2013, 05:29:50 PM
Think it will be the RVP one against us. Great assist, great technique, great goal.

...and offside.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: neo_Villan on May 05, 2013, 05:33:28 PM
Forgot about that. Will that come into consideration when they decide?
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on May 05, 2013, 05:39:14 PM
Forgot about that. Will that come into consideration when they decide?

No.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: RossLeach on May 05, 2013, 06:26:49 PM
Will be on MoTD2 tonight I think
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: TheTimVilla on May 05, 2013, 06:47:05 PM
Think it will be the RVP one against us. Great assist, great technique, great goal.

...and offside.
... and route one football.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Chipsticks on May 05, 2013, 07:09:38 PM
Did I miss it, or was there no Goal of the Month competition for April on MOTD last night?

Was waiting to see if they went for Lowton, or whether they left it up to Alan Hansen's pick - Remy.

Pretty sure they usually do it on Match of the Day 2 to kill air time.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Mister E on May 05, 2013, 07:15:40 PM
Goal of the season contender has to be Andi at Shamfield. But - IIRC - it wasn't even the GoTM so there you go.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: rob_bridge on May 05, 2013, 07:18:55 PM
Did I miss it, or was there no Goal of the Month competition for April on MOTD last night?

Was waiting to see if they went for Lowton, or whether they left it up to Alan Hansen's pick - Remy.

Pretty sure they usually do it on Match of the Day 2 to kill air time.

Sure StevieG will win it - has scored a penalty this month hasn't he?
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: nigel on May 05, 2013, 08:45:14 PM
Think it will be the RVP one against us. Great assist, great technique, great goal.

.......... and offside?  ;D
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: D.boy on May 05, 2013, 10:57:53 PM
Monkey boy Bale will win it as the nation wants his babies according to the media.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: danlanza on May 05, 2013, 11:07:30 PM
Monkey boy Bale will win it as the nation wants his babies according to the media.
So Planet of The Apes is a real possibility then ? Sod that, Lowton for goal of the season, bollocks to Van Persie. Oh, and goal of the month as well.
So suck my hairless bollox Ferguson, you red nosed, claret swigging, horrible, self opinionated twat. Lowton, Lowton and Lowton. UTV.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: not3bad on May 05, 2013, 11:19:54 PM
The goal of the month for April is on tonight's Match of the Day 2.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: rob_bridge on May 05, 2013, 11:27:51 PM
Van Persie's got picked. What a surprise
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: not3bad on May 05, 2013, 11:29:05 PM
And that Irish twat was all "what about Remy?  What about Remy?"

Shearer did the courtesy of mentioning Lowton so doff your fucking caps.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: not3bad on May 05, 2013, 11:30:23 PM
Did they just give save of the season to Guzan?
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: rob_bridge on May 05, 2013, 11:36:53 PM
Lazy unimaginative football coverage. The Beeb should stick to covering the great annual sporting events and Olympics. Forget football until they have a major overhaul. I mean Michael (been retired for 10 years) Owen is the latest one being groomed for the role. Another smug boring mate of the existing closed circle of pals
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Mazrim on May 05, 2013, 11:51:57 PM
I thought van Persies goal was amazing and worthy of goal of the season. Had Lowton not actually scored a better goal of course.
Shearer the twat even used the criteria of volley to justify his choice.... Err...

Very predictable though. Punditry, especially MOTD, never fails to disappoint.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: danno on May 06, 2013, 12:14:13 AM
"Goal of the season Alan?"

Alan Shearer:

"well I'm a stri-kah so ahm gunna have to go with Van Puh-sea's! pace powah tack-nique" .


defenders don't win goal of the season, they're just not fashionable.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: eamonn on May 06, 2013, 01:09:12 AM
I liked the way She-ra last night, when analysing Gabby and Benteke's one-two, said if Christian had "stopped admiring his pass" and ran on he would have had an open goal as Gabby's shot fizzed across. It were a fair point, like.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: GordonCowansisthegreatest on May 06, 2013, 09:12:07 AM
Did they just give save of the season to Guzan?

Yes, Said it was on the scoreboard and they were celebrating when Guzan got his fingers tips to it, he had no right to save it.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Somniloquism on May 06, 2013, 01:16:44 PM
Did they just give save of the season to Guzan?

Yes, Said it was on the scoreboard and they were celebrating when Guzan got his fingers tips to it, he had no right to save it.

Was that the Samba QPR header?
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: peter w on May 06, 2013, 01:23:04 PM
But van persie's goal was offside. If he played for anyone else outside of the winning or fashionable clubs, that would have been the overriding sentiment. You cannot give an offside goal GOTM or season. Ridiculous.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Bully2345 on May 06, 2013, 06:16:21 PM
I liked the way She-ra last night, when analysing Gabby and Benteke's one-two, said if Christian had "stopped admiring his pass" and ran on he would have had an open goal as Gabby's shot fizzed across. It were a fair point, like.

Minor point but Benteke never ever ever goes for the 6 yard line in those situations. He will always hold at the penalty spot for a pull back. It frustrated me at the start of the season but at least he is consistent. The other players know this now
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Dave on May 06, 2013, 06:25:11 PM
I liked the way She-ra last night, when analysing Gabby and Benteke's one-two, said if Christian had "stopped admiring his pass" and ran on he would have had an open goal as Gabby's shot fizzed across. It were a fair point, like.

Minor point but Benteke never ever ever goes for the 6 yard line in those situations. He will always hold at the penalty spot for a pull back. It frustrated me at the start of the season but at least he is consistent. The other players know this now
And following the Reading and QPR games I'm delighted that he doesn't chase in.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: LeeB on May 06, 2013, 07:18:40 PM
I liked the way She-ra last night, when analysing Gabby and Benteke's one-two, said if Christian had "stopped admiring his pass" and ran on he would have had an open goal as Gabby's shot fizzed across. It were a fair point, like.

Minor point but Benteke never ever ever goes for the 6 yard line in those situations. He will always hold at the penalty spot for a pull back. It frustrated me at the start of the season but at least he is consistent. The other players know this now

Err, thrid goal last Monday?
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Risso on May 06, 2013, 07:29:10 PM
I liked the way She-ra last night, when analysing Gabby and Benteke's one-two, said if Christian had "stopped admiring his pass" and ran on he would have had an open goal as Gabby's shot fizzed across. It were a fair point, like.

Minor point but Benteke never ever ever goes for the 6 yard line in those situations. He will always hold at the penalty spot for a pull back. It frustrated me at the start of the season but at least he is consistent. The other players know this now

Err, thrid goal last Monday?

Quite.  18 goals points to the fact that he's been in the right position more often than not.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on May 06, 2013, 07:29:31 PM
I liked the way She-ra last night, when analysing Gabby and Benteke's one-two, said if Christian had "stopped admiring his pass" and ran on he would have had an open goal as Gabby's shot fizzed across. It were a fair point, like.

Minor point but Benteke never ever ever goes for the 6 yard line in those situations. He will always hold at the penalty spot for a pull back. It frustrated me at the start of the season but at least he is consistent. The other players know this now
And following the Reading and QPR games I'm delighted that he doesn't chase in.

He has a brilliant habit of finding space, something a few of us noticed on the youtube videos when we signed him.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: paul_e on May 06, 2013, 08:34:41 PM
I liked the way She-ra last night, when analysing Gabby and Benteke's one-two, said if Christian had "stopped admiring his pass" and ran on he would have had an open goal as Gabby's shot fizzed across. It were a fair point, like.

Minor point but Benteke never ever ever goes for the 6 yard line in those situations. He will always hold at the penalty spot for a pull back. It frustrated me at the start of the season but at least he is consistent. The other players know this now
And following the Reading and QPR games I'm delighted that he doesn't chase in.

He has a brilliant habit of finding space, something a few of us noticed on the youtube videos when we signed him.

Indeed, it's not that he hangs back, it's that he goes into the last bit of space a defender wants him to be in, and he does it entirely on instinct.  As rudy mentioned a few of us picked up on it and were told it was due to the low standard of defending in Belgium.

On topic, ignoring the offside debate somewhat, RVP is a good goal but he had far too much space (because he was offside) .  Lowton had 2 defenders charging him down and managed to get the ball up and down over them.  With a hint of claret and blue goggles I don't see how anyone can think RVPs is the better strike, both of them are worldy's but Lowton's is a few notches higher up the scale for me.  I said at the time, it's as close to a perfect strike (not a perfect goal, I mean purely the technique in the volley) as you'll ever see, I don't think RVPs was actually a particularly 'clean' hit.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Gareth on May 06, 2013, 08:54:15 PM
What a surprise the Princess of Power voted for a striker :-)

Will say it was a pretty exceptional shortlist this month
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: eamonn on May 07, 2013, 02:06:25 AM
Any top striker worth his salt should be capable of scoring that Van Persie effort close to half the time. Lowton's was a much rarer thing of beauty, that he's a full-back only adding to its quality but at the same time it wasn't a fluke as his right peg had previous.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Dave Cooper please on May 07, 2013, 08:47:11 AM
Any top striker worth his salt should be capable of scoring that Van Persie effort close to half the time. Lowton's was a much rarer thing of beauty, that he's a full-back only adding to its quality but at the same time it wasn't a fluke as his right peg had previous.

Yes, but only if they had brilliantly brought down a superb, pin-point crossfield ball with a lovely first touch. It was a great goal by RVP and a great goal by Lowton, not much between them and I can see why they chose the former. (Although van Persie WAS offside of course!)
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: Steve R on May 07, 2013, 09:17:27 AM
I thought it was very appropriate that ManU sealed their title win with three offside goals, and only fair one of them should be chosen as goal of the month.

Sod them. As Brian Clough once said 'You can all throw your medals in the bin...'. That goes for the goal of the month award too.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: not3bad on May 07, 2013, 11:07:08 AM
Did they just give save of the season to Guzan?

Yes, Said it was on the scoreboard and they were celebrating when Guzan got his fingers tips to it, he had no right to save it.

Was that the Samba QPR header?

That was the one.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: bilsim on May 07, 2013, 06:32:10 PM
Matty lowton sweeped Gary Neville's goal of the season on last nights MNF.
Title: Re: Goal of the Month - April
Post by: villa kicks on May 10, 2013, 04:46:25 PM
Any top striker worth his salt should be capable of scoring that Van Persie effort close to half the time. Lowton's was a much rarer thing of beauty, that he's a full-back only adding to its quality but at the same time it wasn't a fluke as his right peg had previous.

I tend to agree with this. Also want to say how lowton goal was better. And they seem to go on player rather than goal.  To further back my argument and say that RVP scoring 'lowtons goal'  be hailed all over the world! And straight on MOTD credits. Lowton scoring rvp they would just say what's he doing in that position but seriously point is simile in the fact another striker could score RVP goal with such time and space. Peter crouch, Papa Cisse, Demba Ba Rickie Lambert maybe even bobby Zamora. Lowton was the best of this season on par with crouchie last season   
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