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Those serious-faced runs by losing goalscorers
- Thread starter Man of Harveys
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Weimann, Aston Villa v West Brom 2014
(in the 12th minute - surely a record)
(in the 12th minute - surely a record)
armchairclubber
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Man of Harveys
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A beauty at Carrow Road. Spoilt slightly by a slightly fey wave to the crowd from the centre circle but otherwise textbook.
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
There were two. The second included a moments hesitation over who should carry the ball back. Pleasure to see.
Isn't this about the earnest futility of retrieving the ball when you've basically been either spanked or routinely beaten?
If so, I'm not sure it really counts on 70 odd minutes? Ample time to score an equaliser, which they duly did (and really should have done a couple of minutes before).
Don't think so? It's about the goaldown retriever. About a team who are losing and are trying to get back into the game. See the OP.
- Aug 8, 2005
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Anyone trying to stop the Goldown Retriever should be known as the Forlorn Hope. Their efforts are pointless but yet are somehow admirable. Never in the field of football has a ref said oh okay since you're trying to stop them having the ball you can keep it.
What. A. Man.
The Fifth Column
Retired ex-cop
Nice to see this thread resurrected, need some more recent examples.
Gilliver's Travels
Peripatetic
Perhaps an obligation to recover the ball should be extended to ALL goalscorers.
This would not only get the game under way more quickly, but also absolve players from the need to think up ever more absurd and protracted 'celebrations'.
So, a new rule? 'The bloke who nets it, gets it.'
This would not only get the game under way more quickly, but also absolve players from the need to think up ever more absurd and protracted 'celebrations'.
So, a new rule? 'The bloke who nets it, gets it.'
West Bromwich Albion v The Real Albion 09/09/17
It appears the term "goal down retriever" first emerged in a bbc caption competition from 2002. See fourth from bottom submitted by Adrian Wade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/2274897.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/2274897.stm
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Every poet is a thief my friend.
Shane Duffy v Southampton, 17/09/18.
Neal Maupay v Everton 26/10/19
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
Interestingly, were were then back on level terms, but such is the belief under Potter, it felt like we were still losing because we believed we could still win, hence the retriever scenario.
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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We also need term for when goalkeepers in an effort to run the clock down make that exaggerated flop on to the ball whey kind of jack knife the legs and earnestly hug the ball tight under their chin.