Applauding a goal from the opposition

[ChrissyPrice]

The Mark Pembridge volley at the Holte End was a cracker.  Most people around me applauded - or at least muttered that is a great goal

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What the hell was Mountfield thinking for their first?

[SashasGrandad]

we gave Cruyff a standing ovation, and i even remember a few villa players clapping him off the park in 77.

I reckon almost everybody in the ground stood and applauded him off. It was the greatest individual performance I've ever witnessed at Villa Park.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The Mark Pembridge volley at the Holte End was a cracker.  Most people around me applauded - or at least muttered that is a great goal

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Not paying sufficient attention to a short corner being taken.
Who was supposed to be patrolling the edge of the 18 yard line ?
I think it's Mark Walters ball watching and allowing the guy who scored to get a good 2/3 yards in front of him.
Who was that on the far stick? He starts on the line as the corner is being taken but by the time the ball is being hit by the scorer he is a few feet off the line.
Spink should have easily got down to it and at worst pushed it round the post for another corner. If it had been a German I'm sure he would have.
An absolutely terrible goal to concede, no credit whatsoever to the scorer or the oppostion whatsoever. 

[Mister E]

we gave Cruyff a standing ovation, and i even remember a few villa players clapping him off the park in 77.

I reckon almost everybody in the ground stood and applauded him off. It was the greatest individual performance I've ever witnessed at Villa Park.

I was there; agreed.

[The Left Side]

Mark Walters had been gone a few years by this game, it may have been Tony Daley, I think that was the game that Cascarino missed an absolute sitter and the boos started.

[Ron Manager]

Did anyone applaud Trevor Francis's hat trick for QPR ?   

Er no but I applauded his four goals against Bolton for Small Heath at the age of.........sixteen!!
Never seen anything like that before or since.

[olaftab]

Did anyone applaud Trevor Francis's hat trick for QPR ?   

Er no but I applauded his four goals against Bolton for Small Heath at the age of.........sixteen!!
Never seen anything like that before or since.

F*ck me I remember that and I was at school so we must be of same era!

[rob_bridge]

2 stand out games for me.

1988 v Liverpool in the Cup - Barnes and Beardsley scored crackers and lots of fans in the packed Holte End clapped the second. This was possibly their best ever team but we matched them for an hour (when we were in Division 2)

1989 v Everton - I think we were 5-0 up and they got a consolation and loads of people cheered. In fact the whole ground cheered. Classic game that one - McGrath and Cowans in midfield together on one of the few occasions.

[Exeter 77]

1989 v Everton - I think we were 5-0 up and they got a consolation and loads of people cheered. In fact the whole ground cheered. Classic game that one - McGrath and Cowans in midfield together on one of the few occasions.

Cottee got one to make it 6-1 and Paul McGrath shinned one past Nigel Spink for 6-2 - 23 years ago last week.

Back on topic, I remember a real screamer from Sulley Muntari for Portsmouth from around 35 yards at the Holte End for Portsmouth a few years ago - 2007 or 2008 maybe.

[olaftab]

Back on topic, I remember a real screamer from Sulley Muntari for Portsmouth from around 35 yards at the Holte End for Portsmouth a few years ago - 2007 or 2008 maybe.

No not Holte End. They were 3-0 up at HT and attacking Witton End. Yes great goal.

[Drummond]

I recollect Stephen Gerrard getting an ovation after single handedly doing us over, probably around 2005/6?

[OzVilla]

Paul Ince scored a belter against us for West Ham, just after he broke through, I remember applauding that.

Yeah that's the one that sticks in my memory too - 89 it was.

IIRC, he picked the ball up from our corner on the edge of his own box, ran virtually the length of the field and stuck it in the top corner from the edge of our box.  Great goal.

[joe_c]

Neil Ruddock scoring the second best goal of the game for Millwall in 1989

David Rocastle around the same time

[Dan England]

Matt Jansen's superb long range effort for Crystal Palace against us. We were 3-0 up at the time but it deserved applause whatever the score.

It was a great  run before it as well I seem to remember.

[Pat McMahon]

we gave Cruyff a standing ovation, and i even remember a few villa players clapping him off the park in 77.

I reckon almost everybody in the ground stood and applauded him off. It was the greatest individual performance I've ever witnessed at Villa Park.

As a one eyed 15 year old I most certainly did not applaud Cruyff.

And I am not sure I would be any more magnanimous today.