This week’s ‘Greatest Own Goal of All-Time’ comes from a very unusual source but when you see the own goal in the video below, you will agree that it was worth it! I saw the own goal on YouTube courtesy of The Guardian and it has to be one of the greatest ever seen. It […]
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Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.10
This week’s ‘Greatest Own Goal’ comes from the Arsenal right back Lauren in a league match away to Manchester City in August 2003. The Cameroon international managed to find the back of the net with his weaker foot in one of the first games in Arsenal’s Invincible season. Ten minutes into the game, Manchester City defender […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.9
The FA Cup was the one trophy that eluded Brian Clough throughout his career.He had guided his Nottingham Forest side to two successive semi finals in 1988 and 1989, only to be paired with Liverpool and lost on both occasions. Forest then went one better in the 1990/91 season, reaching the FA Cup Final after […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.8
Crystal Palace had a tough 2004/05 season and were relegated on the final day of the season. They very nearly stayed up, leading 2-1 at neighbours Charlton Athletic until Jonathan Fortune headed in an equaliser and West Bromwich Albion stayed up instead. The 2004/05 season was Palace’s first back in the top flight for six […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.7
Willie Donachie and Jim Blyth wonder what has just happened as the ball nestles in the back of the net This week’s own goal comes from Scotland’s Willie Donachie for Scotland against Wales in the 1978 Home Championship.The game was played at Hampden Park on 17th May, with Scotland about to jet off to Argentina […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.6
Forest Green Rovers vs Morecambe is hardly a fixture of two footballing heavyweights. It did however give us one of the greatest goals in FA Cup history. The name of Wayne Hatswell became well-known for all the wrong reasons after the two sides played each other in the First Round of the FA Cup in […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.5
Santiago Vergini (far right) smashes in a great own-goal against Southampton This week’s own goal comes courtesy of Sunderland’s former defender, Santiago Vergini.The own goal was the first of eight goals conceded by Sunderland against Southampton on 18th October 2014. It is one of the greatest own goals in Premier League history. The own goal […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.4
Jamie Pollock after his famous own-goal in 1998 If you start typing ‘Jamie Pollock’ into Google, the search engine predictive text facility’s first guess is that you are looking up ‘Jamie Pollock Own Goal’!This must be particularly frustrating for Pollock as he had made 367 appearances in the Football League over the course of his […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.3
Sandy Brown heads the most famous own-goal in a Merseyside Derby Sandy Brown made 251 appearances for Everton between 1963 and 1971 but will forever be remembered for an own goal that he scored in one particular game. The own goal came in a 3-0 defeat to arch-rivals Liverpool on 6th December 1969 at Everton’s […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.2
Guillaume Warmuz looks baffled as he picks the ball out of the back of the net after Franck Queudrue lobbed him from about 40 yards out Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.2 – Franck Queudrue for Lens vs Bastia 7th April 2001 Only 5,612 fans were inside the Bastia’s Stade Armand Casari to witness this […]