All-time football misses

Craig · 12-10-2008, 03:20 AM

Now that football is a popular past time for members on here, care to add some of your favourite misses in front of goal? This one should take care of a lot of lot of them, look for Kanu's miss after 0:48.

Here you go

Credit for this thread should go to BB and Corrin for giving me this idea and Chris Iwelumo

BoyBrumby · 12-10-2008, 03:41 AM

Some absolute gold in there. Nice to see Forlan & dear old Ronnie Rosenthal get the credit they deserve too.

Barney Rubble · 12-10-2008, 03:47 AM

Hard to look past the last clip on that link Craigos posted, for mine.

Another candidate is Diana Ross' World Cup '94 cock-up, purely for the context, given that it wasn't even in a match.

PhoenixFire · 12-10-2008, 03:48 AM

The misses towards the end are just shocking. Forlan's is terrible.

BoyBrumby · 12-10-2008, 04:16 AM

The game is best remembered for Maradona's cheating & stupendously overrated second goal (he avoids two half-arsed attmepts at a tackle, BFD), but Gary Lineker's miss from a header one yard from the goal in the 1986 WC QF is quite special, particularly given the context (i.e. 2-1 down with five minutes left).

YouTube. Really long clip, I'm afraid. Watch from about 9.50 onwards tho.

Uppercut · 12-10-2008, 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

The game is best remembered for Maradona's cheating & stupendously overrated second goal (he avoids two half-arsed attmepts at a tackle, BFD), but Gary Lineker's miss from a header one yard from the goal in the 1986 WC QF is quite special, particularly given the context (i.e. 2-1 down with five minutes left).

YouTube. Really long clip, I'm afraid. Watch from about 9.50 onwards tho.

Lineker didn't touch it. It's the greatest ever goal-line clearance IMO. When you see it zoomed in, the Argentine deliberately dived in front of it then flicked his head back to keep it out.

Barney Rubble · 12-10-2008, 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Uppercut

Lineker didn't touch it. It's the greatest ever goal-line clearance IMO. When you see it zoomed in, the Argentine deliberately dived in front of it then flicked his head back to keep it out.

Yeah, I think you're right there. Think that's just an awesome bit of defending.

GIMH · 12-10-2008, 07:43 AM

I misread the title and went looking for pics to post itbt

Can't find a link, should be out there somewhere as it has featured heavily on DVDs and stuff, the worst I've seen in person was when Scott Taylor brilliantly rounded the Ipswich keeper in a 3rd round FA Cup tie in January 99. It was such a fantastic piece of skill. Only thing was, he then hit the post with the goal in front of him.

He failed to connect with one when in a similar position five minutes later as well.

GIMH · 12-10-2008, 07:49 AM

That last one on the link posted by Craigos is a belter. I couldn't work out how the guy was gonna miss short of turning round and clearing it himself. Madness.

sledger · 12-10-2008, 07:49 AM

Gazza Euro 96 is the one that always haunts me, christ alive.

The Giggs FA cup vs Arsenal miss was one I still find hard to believe, having rounded Campbell and Seaman how he somehow put it over the bar I have never quite worked out.

GIMH · 12-10-2008, 07:50 AM

The Gazza one is not that much of a stinker, just that he couldn't get his foot on the ball. Think it was Golden Goal at the time as well.

BoyBrumby · 12-10-2008, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Uppercut

Lineker didn't touch it. It's the greatest ever goal-line clearance IMO. When you see it zoomed in, the Argentine deliberately dived in front of it then flicked his head back to keep it out.

No, you're right, he didn't touch it (we got the corner), but he bloody well should've done. Shearer or Sir Les would've scored. Gary never was much cop in the air.

Not quite the same level as those Craig posted, but I remember it vividly because of the context.

sledger · 12-10-2008, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

The Gazza one is not that much of a stinker, just that he couldn't get his foot on the ball. Think it was Golden Goal at the time as well.

Yeah indeed, it's not so much that he blew it, just that it was literally that had he got a whisker more of a touch on it so much could have been different...sigh.

TT Boy · 12-10-2008, 08:09 AM

Jason Roberts against Bayer Leverkusen doesn't seem to be there. I almost cried when Roberts missed from three yards out.

Also miss number 20 from Kieran Dyer isn't that bad.

Tom Halsey · 12-10-2008, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by sledger

The Giggs FA cup vs Arsenal miss was one I still find hard to believe, having rounded Campbell and Seaman how he somehow put it over the bar I have never quite worked out.

The Giggs one is one of the worst IMO, he had bags of time, whereas misses such as Iwelumo are at least mitigated (albeit only very slightly) by the fact that the ball came at him awkwardly (though this still wouldn't have been a problem had he had a left foot). Misses such as Rosenthal's also fit into the Giggs category IMO.

12-10-2008, 03:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
BoyBrumby Englishman Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Doing the stance Posts: 42,658	Some absolute gold in there. Nice to see Forlan & dear old Ronnie Rosenthal get the credit they deserve too. __________________ *- As featured in The Independent.* "This is not the time for namby-pamby promising youngsters who might just do something; not the time for building for the future. Pragmatism rules and they don't come more pragmatic than Rogers." - Victor Marks makes the case for stiff-legged and stiff-armed 35 year old left-handers in Ashes squads

12-10-2008, 07:43 AM	#8 (permalink)
GIMH Eternal Optimist Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Shake my tree where's the apple for me? Posts: 43,656	I misread the title and went looking for pics to post itbt Can't find a link, should be out there somewhere as it has featured heavily on DVDs and stuff, the worst I've seen in person was when Scott Taylor brilliantly rounded the Ipswich keeper in a 3rd round FA Cup tie in January 99. It was such a fantastic piece of skill. Only thing was, he then hit the post with the goal in front of him. He failed to connect with one when in a similar position five minutes later as well. __________________ Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.

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Barney Rubble International Coach Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: All over the shop Posts: 10,191	Hard to look past the last clip on that link Craigos posted, for mine. Another candidate is Diana Ross' World Cup '94 cock-up, purely for the context, given that it wasn't even in a match.

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BoyBrumby Englishman Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Doing the stance Posts: 42,658	The game is best remembered for Maradona's cheating & stupendously overrated second goal (he avoids two half-arsed attmepts at a tackle, BFD), but Gary Lineker's miss from a header one yard from the goal in the 1986 WC QF is quite special, particularly given the context (i.e. 2-1 down with five minutes left). YouTube. Really long clip, I'm afraid. Watch from about 9.50 onwards tho.

12-10-2008, 07:49 AM	#9 (permalink)
GIMH Eternal Optimist Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Shake my tree where's the apple for me? Posts: 43,656	That last one on the link posted by Craigos is a belter. I couldn't work out how the guy was gonna miss short of turning round and clearing it himself. Madness.

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sledger Spanish_Vicente Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: cricsim, lol Posts: 28,161	Gazza Euro 96 is the one that always haunts me, christ alive. The Giggs FA cup vs Arsenal miss was one I still find hard to believe, having rounded Campbell and Seaman how he somehow put it over the bar I have never quite worked out.

12-10-2008, 07:50 AM	#11 (permalink)
GIMH Eternal Optimist Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Shake my tree where's the apple for me? Posts: 43,656	The Gazza one is not that much of a stinker, just that he couldn't get his foot on the ball. Think it was Golden Goal at the time as well.

12-10-2008, 08:09 AM	#14 (permalink)
TT Boy Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: . Posts: 16,321	Jason Roberts against Bayer Leverkusen doesn't seem to be there. I almost cried when Roberts missed from three yards out. Also miss number 20 from Kieran Dyer isn't that bad.

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