Evans Goal

[Ainsley Harriott]

Great goal.

But yet again we crossed a ball that went to nobody.

Just fortunately the clearance fell well to Evans

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

The other remarkable thing about the first goal was the almost casual manner in which he took it, as if it were something he's being doing all his life and something that any respectable footballer would be expected to do.

The reality is that in all my 70 plus years of watching matches at the Lane, I don't ever remember a goal being scored by a player on the move with a ball dropping from 20 feet using that technique.

Had I done so, I would have expected it to come from a ball striker of the stature of a Bergkamp or a Cantona,
not a young Blades midfielder from the lower leagues.

Extraordinary.

 

[Bladepicker]

Fair play. If Evans had been sloppy and rounded up, it would have been a mis-hit, so the two decimal place calculation is vital. In fact, I’m wondering whether Wilder or Knill should be covering advanced physics with Leon this week.

What's the terminal velocity of a football?

 

[Billyblade]

I can't really add much to the already well-covered discussion and opinions of Evans goal.

What I can add though is that Grealish is an absolute cock-socket

 

[Iceybabey]

Bigger club, bigger name, bigger game. Sad but true.

I’m just happy I saw Evans’s goal live. It was astonishing.

I only saw it fly in past the keeper. Didn't see him hit it, as I glanced down at my phone when their lad sliced it up in the air.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

It could only have been better had it been Simmo’s ball finally falling back out of orbit...

 

[Iceybabey]

Great goal.

But yet again we crossed a ball that went to nobody.

Just fortunately the clearance fell well to Evans

Ye, who put those defenders in the way?

 

[Iceybabey]

That Neves lad for Wolves has topped it for me.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Ye, who put those defenders in the way?

Not my point. The cross was woeful yet again. We got away with it in some style mind

 

[Razor1967]

And what was their decision on the best one?

It was left open for debate

 

[Gavlar]

That Neves lad for Wolves has topped it for me.

I was waiting for that. Good goal, I still prefer Evans though.

 

[Liverpool blade]

I was waiting for that. Good goal, I still prefer Evans though.

You're right but both players will be crestfallen this morning as the F.A. Panel have awarded them both to harry Kane. Lol

 

[Northyorksblade]

Great goal.

But yet again we crossed a ball that went to nobody.

Just fortunately the clearance fell well to Evans

Some people will always find a negative

 

[chesblade]

Not even in top 4 for championship goal of the season on Sky.

 

[cooperblade]

 

[Geordie Blade]

What's the terminal velocity of a football?

About 55 miles per hour, apparently, which is slower than when someone blasts it. There's a page here:



And, for a laboratory-controlled scientific test of a football's terminal velocity:

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

Does it (Evans' goal) have to be compared? Does it have to be in Sky's goal of the season? Does it need recognition from anyone other than SUFC?

Personally I just prefer to marvel at one of the best goals we've seen in recent times.

Ps. Neves' goal was sensational.

 

[chesblade]

Just thought it was better than Grealish goal but that managed to be in top 4 along with Neves, Joe Shaw and Reach

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

Evan's goal is far better than Grealish's.

 

[56yearsablade]

Thinking around this the best four "individual " goals I have ever seen at Bramall Lane are

Currie v West Ham - quality goal etc

Tony Field v Ipswich

Michael Brown v Wednesday

and now

Evans (First) v Boro

For sheer technical brilliance/difficulty and the importance of the goal to the club for me Evans's goal has to be the best of the above four and probably the best ever ?

 

[I should coco]

Thinking around this the best four "individual " goals I have ever seen at Bramall Lane are

Currie v West Ham - quality goal etc

Tony Field v Ipswich

Michael Brown v Wednesday

and now

Evans (First) v Boro

Sorry, but Jags worldy against DirtyLeeds has to be in there for quality.

I'd argue that Pesch's mazy driblle against Forest was far more important as it actually got us to a play off final. Evans goal just keeps us at the table for another hand of cards.

 

[Geordie Blade]

Thinking around this the best four "individual " goals I have ever seen at Bramall Lane are

Currie v West Ham - quality goal etc

Tony Field v Ipswich

Michael Brown v Wednesday

and now

Evans (First) v Boro

For sheer technical brilliance/difficulty and the importance of the goal to the club for me Evans's goal has to be the best of the above four and probably the best ever ?

Sorry, but Jags worldy against DirtyLeeds has to be in there for quality.

I'd argue that Pesch's mazy driblle against Forest was far more important as it actually got us to a play off final. Evans goal just keeps us at the table for another hand of cards.

Deano's lob against Liverpool. We all knew that Deano was far more than a target man, but this showed the rest of the country that he was at talented as any other striker in the country. Against top notch opposition too. Sublime.

 

[Geordie Blade]

Deano's lob against Liverpool. We all knew that Deano was far more than a target man, but this showed the rest of the country that he was at talented as any other striker in the country. Against top notch opposition too. Sublime.

One thing I've never noticed about the Deane lob before, is how Bobby Davison was smart enough to get back onside quickly. This was before the 1995 law change that meant you didn't have to be 'active', so the goal could have been disallowed. There was a defender (Steve Nichol) behind Davison but, because Grobbelaar was messing about near the halfway line, Davison had to make sure two defenders were behind him. I remember the referee doing everything possible to make sure we didn't win that day, so I'm sure he'd have been very quick to call offside.

 

[Grappler]

The Jags strike against Boro, Prem season, at BDTBL, was also a great moment

 

[Guesty]

One thing I've never noticed about the Deane lob before, is how Bobby Davison was smart enough to get back onside quickly. This was before the 1995 law change that meant you didn't have to be 'active', so the goal could have been disallowed. There was a defender (Steve Nichol) behind Davison but, because Grobbelaar was messing about near the halfway line, Davison had to make sure two defenders were behind him. I remember the referee doing everything possible to make sure we didn't win that day, so I'm sure he'd have been very quick to call offside.

Whitehouse had a goal disallowed for absolutely nothing after Deane led their defence on a merry dance so no doubt he would have chalked that one off if he could.

 

[Groucho Blade]

What's the terminal velocity of a football?

An African or European football?

I don’t know that...aaaaarghh!

 

[snootyfenooty]

Now there is a player often overlooked these days when compiling lists of greats

Ah yes. "The Divine Ponytail".