I saw that goal from the Kop. Yesterday's I saw on the old TV screen. But they were the same goal, right Jill? The same goal. The same brilliant use of the the full dimensions of the pitch, the same commitment to attack empty space and force the other team to run towards their own goal, the same awesome delivery, the same controlled header. Bob Paisley was chuckling away on Sunday.
That is one of the best goals ever scored at Anfield. I was gutted at the time as I missed that game for some reason, but my younger brother was right behind the goal in the Road End and saw it unfold in all its glory.
^ paddock here - seems we had all angles covered
I was on the bars behind the goal in the Annie Road end. That match and goal is still my fondest memory of going the match as a kid.
Go on then Yorky, I’ll complete the set.
Main Stand, almost the identical view of the footage. My very first game (just before starting school). Talk about spoiled.
Like everyone else who’s seen both, yes it’s the same goal, uncanny. Ok, maybe just pure nostalgia that says Heighway’s lung-busting run (vaguely recall he started out of the blocks unsighted from the touchline/penalty area which explains why he looks too knackered to celebrate) has the slight edge given the one-touch no-look audacity. And yes, ok, maybe Terry Mac seemed to suspend unnaturally in the air, the magnetic attraction pulling the ball onto his curly mop. But my god, the Trent/Robbo/Mo version will be talked about for another 40 years. If anything, the move seems calmer, swifter, more measured, practiced even. But likewise ruthlessly executed, ripping them apart.
And much more important psychologically to morale than the 7th against an already-humiliated Spurs, as it put City’s notions of a recovery to bed, a lethal EM shock to that plastic pale blue plasma-pumping medical device masquerading as a heart. The third was simply inevitable.