What's the single best thing you ever did on a football pitch?

Scored a perfect hat trick in one game.

However, my greatest achievement was a tremendous moment of slapstick. In a game for my primary school team, playing a school near Tandle Hill. The pitch was on a slope and the goals were two netball posts with a fairly slack bit of rope tied between them as a crossbar. We were 5-0 up at half time, and I was playing centre back, kicking up hill in the second half. Towards the end of the game, having spent all half hoofing the ball up hill in a way that only a 9 year old kid without any training could do. I thought I’d change approach and kick the ball out of play. Rather than aiming for the touch line. I inexplicably turned and belted the ball at my own goal to try to clear over the cross bar. At the exact moment the ball was flying over the bar. A gust of wind caught the rope and blew the rope upwards. So I had the pleasure of watching my “clearance” fly into the top of my own net from a good 20 yards. I later on became a striker and bagged plenty of tap-ins and one in ones. 20 yard wind assisted screamers were never really in my canon.

Been trying overhead/scissor kicks for as long as I can remember. Became a bit of a pathetic trademark. Trafford Barn on rainy Sunday and I pull one off during a game of 7 a side. Crossbar and in. I shrieked like a girl.

Scored a pen past Nicky Weaver at the Umbro tournament when I was about 14. Was all downhill from there.

Originally Posted by AK14

You’re over 40!?

Yup. Only just though.

Originally Posted by browser

not the best thing, but best I have on film

Stokey school. You still play there?

Originally Posted by 92ToBury

Ah, it all clicks into place.

Hello Adam.

Don't insult me pal, did you see what he had "cooked" for Christmas day??

Show a bit of respect FFS

Infected grassburn

Originally Posted by HarkNowHear

Infected grassburn

Grassburns solicitors are still preparing the case

Originally Posted by no fun

Grassburns solicitors are still preparing the case

Arf



Bell

scored at the old Wembley


we lost 3-1 though but I didn't give a £#%&!

Scored at Villa Park in a tournament at the end of the season about 10 years ago. I took my shirt of and started twirling it around as I ran back towards our half after scoring.

There was a dinner afterwards and Big Ron was there to hand out trophies.

The high point of more than 40 years in the game

Originally Posted by Danoli

Scored at Villa Park in a tournament at the end of the season about 10 years ago. I took my shirt of and started twirling it around as I ran back towards our half after scoring.

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Originally Posted by Throw

Stokey school. You still play there?

Yeah still play in the 7 aside league there on a Saturday, that’s my only run out these days - I stopped 11s the Marshes at the end of last season. Mad down there now, every team has a film crew with them ‘for the gram’

Originally Posted by Danoli

Scored at Villa Park in a tournament at the end of the season about 10 years ago. I took my shirt of and started twirling it around as I ran back towards our half after scoring.

There was a dinner afterwards and Big Ron was there to hand out trophies.

The high point of more than 40 years in the game

Did you get a yellow? I’m big on consistency atm.

Originally Posted by browser

Yeah still play in the 7 aside league there on a Saturday, that’s my only run out these days - I stopped 11s the Marshes at the end of last season. Mad down there now, every team has a film crew with them ‘for the gram’

Nice tekkers browser. We’ve signed players on less evidence than that. Might still be ON!

Originally Posted by Danoli

Scored at Villa Park in a tournament at the end of the season about 10 years ago. I took my shirt of and started twirling it around as I ran back towards our half after scoring.

There was a dinner afterwards and Big Ron was there to hand out trophies.

The high point of more than 40 years in the game

Originally Posted by Danoli

Scored at Villa Park in a tournament at the end of the season about 10 years ago. I took my shirt of and started twirling it around as I ran back towards our half after scoring.

There was a dinner afterwards and Big Ron was there to hand out trophies.

The high point of more than 40 years in the game

that reminds me. Played in a corporate 6 aside at Elland Road, back when Neil Redfearn was manager at Leeds, each team had a couple of ex pros on their team, we had Redfearn & Richard Naylor. I was in the worst shape of my life, and we were in LUFC kit, the official Leeds photographer was taking pics and a mate managed to get hold of copies , i was blowing out of my ar**, and there was a couple of days of detagging photos of myself on facebook as fast as they kept appearing. We were poor, as we were a bit old and unfit, and most of the teams had some fit, fast lads, I put a scholesy like pass to put Naylor in for one of our few goals.

Bumped into Redfearn a few days later and he said 'you were the best player on show', which I wasn't, but you can dream and it was nice of him to inflate an out of shape 40 somethings ego.