One goal wonders

[WhiteHawk]

Don't forget the Coca Cola kid either

Coca Cola Kid?

 

[Silent Blade]

On a slightly related note, has a keeper ever scored from open play for us?

Jim Brown did it for Chesterfield against Stockport. He also scored for Washington Diplomats. Afraid I cant think of any of our keepers scoring for us

 

[DSB-91]

Coca Cola Kid?

Coca-cola ran a competition in 2005 where they would give the winner's chosen club £250,000 to spend on a transfer. A Brighton fan won and the money was used to buy Colin Kazim-Richards, that's how he got the nickname.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kazim-Richards#Brighton_.26_Hove_Albion

 

[WhiteHawk]

Coca-cola ran a competition in 2005 where they would give the winner's chosen club £250,000 to spend on a transfer. A Brighton fan won and the money was used to buy Colin Kazim-Richards, that's how he got the nickname.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kazim-Richards#Brighton_.26_Hove_Albion

Ah right. I remember the promotion and trying to think back to it to how Sheff Utd were linked with it!

 

[Revolution]

I was trying to find the exact attendance for this game online but couldn't find it . I do have a book somewhere that will have the crowd in. If it was around the 8,000 mark ( which we got regular around then ) then the 8,000 or so saw an all time great goal. Definitely in my top 20 Blades goal of all time.

Having checked, the crowd was 7,762. That was the last of 5 straight games - 4 won 1 drawn - where we had crowds of less than 10,000, including the post-war low of 6,647 v Palace.

Our average home crowd that season was 9,992 - the only time since 1897 that we have averaged less than 5 figures.

 

[Darren]

Jim Brown did it for Chesterfield against Stockport. He also scored for Washington Diplomats. Afraid I cant think of any of our keepers scoring for us

When United played a touring black South African team (known in those unreconstructed days as "Kaffirs") in 1899 Fatty Foulke made a couple of jaunts up front and scored a couple of goals.

From what I can remember the tour was all about "look black people! and they can kick a football!" and one suspects that their football skills were not of the highest. I believe United won the game 7-2.

 

[Silent Blade]

From what I can remember the tour was all about "look black people! and they can kick a football!"

Many people these days were insular. A friend who is now 77 told me that when he was very young his dad took him on a "day out" to see a black man at Spital Hill selling newspapers and there were many people stood there looking at him as if it was a zoo!

 

[Darren]

Many people these days were insular. A friend who is now 77 told me that when he was very young his dad took him on a "day out" to see a black man at Spital Hill selling newspapers and there were many people stood there looking at him as if it was a zoo!

If you google Orange Free State football team tour of Europe 1899 you will find a very interesting article on the tour (it's a pdf so I can't link it). They played 49 games and were subject to "racism, ridicule and humiliation" apparently. It was quite common for their opponents to send the goalie up front and play with no-one in goal, hence Fatty's 2 goals.

There's no mention of the United game in the article, but a good read none the less.

 

[gavtheblade]

Paul Furlong scored on his debut did he not????

 

[Darren]

Paul Furlong scored on his debut did he not????

Yep. He got 2 on 9/2/02 v Portsmouth at the Lane including a last minute penalty winner.

 

[ZoneManWilf]

Please if anybody has the Andy Kennedy goal get it posted on here. If my memory is correct he broke loose from our own half with the Blackburn team in his wake and then chipped the approaching keeper from the edge of the box. What a goal. He then just stood facing the kop with his arms outstretched in celebration. Back in the days where we barely averaged 13,000 gates, the goal deserved a better time and crowd.

I was there for that, used to stand down near the bottom of the kop back then, with my Dad 15-20 yards back. I remember the goal vividly, and Kennedy stood right in front of kop next to the fencing after he scored and I tried to climb up the fences and grab his shirt!

 

[Rossb123]

Don't know if it has been mentioned and please correct me if I am wrong, Christian Nade scored three goals but I think only one league goal against Arsenal, what a great goal/ night that was (surely that counts as one goal wonderer). That's one of the few memories I like to keep about that season, the other being throwing away a 7 point gap and getting relegated.

 

[Bert]

Many people these days were insular. A friend who is now 77 told me that when he was very young his dad took him on a "day out" to see a black man at Spital Hill selling newspapers and there were many people stood there looking at him as if it was a zoo!

When we got relegated to the 4th Division the elderly father of Bert's mate declared "What we need is some good cheap Blackies".

 

[Darren]

Don't know if it has been mentioned and please correct me if I am wrong, Christian Nade scored three goals but only one league goal against Arsenal, what a great goal/ night that was (surely that counts as one goal wonderer). That's one of the few memories I like to keep about that season, the other being throwing away a 7 point gap and getting relegated.

He also scored in the 2-1 defeat at home to Newcastle on 7/4/07.

 

[Rossb123]

He also scored in the 2-1 defeat at home to Newcastle on 7/4/07.

I stand corrected, I thought seemed a bit strange no one had mentioned him! That's obviously the reason why.

 

[Revolution]

I stand corrected, I thought seemed a bit strange no one had mentioned him! That's obviously the reason why.

His 3rd goal was also a league goal - the consolation in our 3-1 defeat at Reading.

 

[Rossb123]

His 3rd goal was also a league goal - the consolation in our 3-1 defeat at Reading.

Never trust Wikipedia! I clearly didn't understand the concept of this 'One goal wonders' thread, maybe I need to start a Christian Nade's greatest goals thread ...........

 

[Selly]

Never trust Wikipedia! I clearly didn't understand the concept of this 'One goal wonders' thread, maybe I need to start a Christian Nade's greatest goals thread ...........

You are probably looking for the "One Wonder Goal" thread...

 

[S6Blade]

Full list since 1970. I count league, FAC and LC, but not minor cups.

8/4/74 Terry Nicholl Liverpool H
8/2/75 Garry Jones Carlisle A
4/9/76 Steve Ludlam Southampton A
4/4/78 John Cutbush Brighton H
6/2/79 Tom Smith Fulham H
14/4/79 Bruce Rioch Newcastle A
5/1/80 Viv Busby Chesterfield A
19/4/80 Paul Casey Plymouth A
7/10/80 Phil Jones Burnley A
29/1/83 Gary West Bournemouth H
23/4/83 Tony Towner Bradford H
14/5/83 Stewart Houston Orient A
13/5/85 Paul Smith Huddersfield A
16/11/85 Steve Wigley Blackburn H
22/4/86 Lee Walshaw Leeds H
4/4/87 Andy Kennedy Blackburn H
29/8/87 Chris Marsden Blackburn H
26/4/88 Wally Downes Ipswich H
29/10/88 Chris Wilder Bury H
21/1/89 Darren Carr Gillingham H
15/4/89 Steve Thompson Northampton A
6/10/90 David Barnes Wimbledon H
17/8/91 Colin Hill Norwich A
5/11/94 Charlie Hartfield Bristol City H
22/4/95 Mark Foran Wolves H
2/9/95 Rob Scott WBA A
4/11/95 Tony Battersby Portsmouth H
20/1/96 David Tuttle Watford H
26/12/96 Doug Hodgson Bradford A
28/12/98 Michael Twiss Huddersfield H
9/5/99 Georges Donis Ipswich A
27/11/99 Bruno Ribeiro WBA A
21/12/99 Shaun Derry Rushden A
3/1/00 Paul Hall Grimbsy A
7/5/00 Adam Burley Swindon H
30/12/00 James Thomas Preston H
8/9/01 Keith Curle Bradford H
30/3/02 Ben Doane Crewe A
6/4/02 Steve Lovell Watford A
6/4/02 JP Javary Watford A
24/8/02 Iffy Onuora Burnley A
1/10/02 Michael Boulding Wycombe H
15/2/03 Tommy Mooney Walsall H
23//8/03 Robert Page Norwich H
6/12/03 Mike Whitlow Burnley A
3/4/04 Alan Wright Forest H
25/9/04 Tommy Black Coventry H
29/10/04 Danny Cadamarteri Crewe A
27/11/04 Paul Thirlwell Wolves H
4/12/04 Derek Geary Millwall A
8/1/05 Danny Cullip Villa H
23/8/05 Ian Ross Boston H
26/11/05 Craig Short Leicester A
14/2/06 Bruce Dyer Reading H
11/11/06 Colin Kazim-Richards Bolton H
28/8/07 Geoff Horsfield MK Dons A
28/8/07 Nicky Law MK Dons A
28/8/07 Chris Lucketti MK Dons A
25/10/08 Ugo Ehiogu Preston H
25/11/08 Matthew Spring Wolves H
20/12/08 Nathan Dyer Palace H
14/3/09 Craig Beattie Derby H
7/4/09 JJ O'Toole Barnsley H
18/8/09 Keith Treacey Leicester H
26/1/10 Jon Fortune Reading H
28/8/10 Jean Calve Preston H
8/3/11 Sam Vokes Forest H
19/3/11 Bjorn Riise Leeds H
3/9/11 Erik Tonne Bury H
3/9/11 Nathaniel Mendez-Laing Bury H
29/11/11 Sam Clarke Exeter H
5/10/13 Marlon King Crawley H

Who is / was Sam Clarke?

 

[Darren]

Who is / was Sam Clarke?

The guy who came on loan from Blackpool along with Phillips in Oct 2011. He was a centre forward who looked pretty tidy.

 

[cooperblade]

The guy who came on loan from Blackpool along with Phillips in Oct 2011. He was a centre forward who looked pretty tidy.

Billy

 

[Darren]

Billy

Thanks.

Homer nodded...

 

[S6Blade]

Thanks.

Homer nodded...

I don't believe a word you say anymore.