Andy Jones Oldham away....cannot remember what year...was on the plastic pitch i think......shocking
If I remember right he slid in and missed from 3 yards out blasting over the bar (how he done it god only knows?)
If it's the one I'm thinking of, that was indeed possibly the best/worst ever. If only for the look of utter disbelief and embarrassment on Andy Jones's face as he ended up on his arse and the ball sailed into the back row. Nobody in the ground knew how he had managed to do it - including AJ. That's when he started looking for the divot. I'd forgotten it was astroturf which makes it even funnier...
The Robert Lee miss v Luton in '87 was a classic, too. And he did it at least once more that season on a Sunday lunchtime at Wimbledon when he was clean through and and just dribbled the ball into the keeper's hands (probably Beasant?), as if he was a defender ushering the ball to safety.
If we're talking pens rather than open play - Steve Brown's Jonny Wilkinson effort one night at the Valley about a dozen years ago in a shoot-out v Oxford in a joke cup game. He hit it so high it would have gone over the the tips of the rugby uprights at Twickenham. A once in a lifetime shot: you could have offered him a million pounds and he never would have managed to get that sort of elevation on the ball again no matter how hard he tried...
Comments
The Robert Lee miss v Luton in '87 was a classic, too. And he did it at least once more that season on a Sunday lunchtime at Wimbledon when he was clean through and and just dribbled the ball into the keeper's hands (probably Beasant?), as if he was a defender ushering the ball to safety.
If we're talking pens rather than open play - Steve Brown's Jonny Wilkinson effort one night at the Valley about a dozen years ago in a shoot-out v Oxford in a joke cup game. He hit it so high it would have gone over the the tips of the rugby uprights at Twickenham. A once in a lifetime shot: you could have offered him a million pounds and he never would have managed to get that sort of elevation on the ball again no matter how hard he tried...