TheCulturalBomb Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Hard, probably equals for me. But a World Cup win would beat anything City related regardless of cup or division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Korey every time. Bristol City. Would also put Christian Roberts v Hartlepool up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Somerset Red Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Smiths all day long as being there is that much more special as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danwal Posted July 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 I agree with right Roberts goal, beating Man U was amazing but losing to them wouldn’t have been too bad. However if we would have lost last night or lost to Hartlepool as with the Roberts goal it’s the heart brake I couldn’t have taken. Guess that’s why diers penalty meant more as it could so easily have been another horrible night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Any of Gareth Bale's for Wales! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberdeen Pete's Dad Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Gillies at Coventry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Korey. All the way. The outpouring of celebration of us winning a penalty shootout against a side we should have put to sleep in the first 20 minutes last night is concerning. We won nothing last night. Other than a game against European opposition in the next round. How did our last game go against a European opponent? I really hope. Really hope. That England progress and do well, but the way some people are carrying on, you'd think we had already won it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Korey’s goal was the single greatest moment of sport I’ve ever witnessed in person. The only way that I could envisage England surpassing that moment would be if the unthinkable was to happen on Sunday week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lager loud Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Dier for me - although, watching them each at home on TV, my reaction was pretty similar, involving vaulting off the sofa, jumping around the living room laughing and screaming. I may have used some naughty words on each occasion. Beating Man U was great, but my disappointments with England World Cup performances/results go back to 1970 and Peter Bonetti. Once it went to penalties last night I had no doubt we would lose. So even though there may be another let-down round the corner, there was nearly 50 years' worth of frustration to let out when we actually won. Watching England, it's probably only David Platt's 119th minute winner against Belgium in 1990 that could rival the feeling last night. There are a few City goals that I enjoyed more than Smith's winner (maybe in part because I was at the games): - Martyn Hirst's winner at Eastville in the FA Cup in 1983 (before I was a City fan, really, but knowing Martyn a bit made that special) - Steve Neville's 119th(?) minute Freight Rover winner against Hereford in 1986 - both the goals against Hartlepool in the play-off semi-final Nothing like a late, late winner, when not winning would be utterly horrible, to remind us just why we watch football! Maybe that's why the Smith goal doesn't quite make the cut for me: however good it was to beat Man U, losing wouldn't have been terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 7 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said: Korey. All the way. The outpouring of celebration of us winning a penalty shootout against a side we should have put to sleep in the first 20 minutes last night is concerning. We won nothing last night. Other than a game against European opposition in the next round. How did our last game go against a European opponent? I really hope. Really hope. That England progress and do well, but the way some people are carrying on, you'd think we had already won it. Why is it “concerning” that we celebrated a dramatic victory in an important match that keeps us in with a shout of winning the World Cup?! It’s been a great World Cup, England have a realistic chance of doing very well, the sun has been shining for weeks on end and people are enjoying the summer. What’s wrong with getting excited?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 4 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said: Why is it “concerning” that we celebrated a dramatic victory in an important match that keeps us in with a shout of winning the World Cup?! It’s been a great World Cup, England have a realistic chance of doing very well, the sun has been shining for weeks on end and people are enjoying the summer. What’s wrong with getting excited?! I think the fact we won, masked our inability to see off a game in normal time we were more than capable of winning. Like I say, it's great we won, but the fact it took pens... leaves we concerned if we are going to have a chance of lifting the cup. I hope my concerns are unfounded, but last night wasn't (in my view) as epic a win as many are making out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North London Red Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 25 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said: Korey. All the way. The outpouring of celebration of us winning a penalty shootout against a side we should have put to sleep in the first 20 minutes last night is concerning. We won nothing last night. Other than a game against European opposition in the next round. How did our last game go against a European opponent? I really hope. Really hope. That England progress and do well, but the way some people are carrying on, you'd think we had already won it. Why should we have put them to sleep in the first 20 minutes? Slightly disrespectful to a team who reached the quarter finals 4 years ago and who put three unanswered goals past a Poland team that some on here were predicting would knock us out, no? As for our last game against European opposition...it was two reserve teams playing each other in little more than a dead rubber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 2 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said: I think the fact we won, masked our inability to see off a game in normal time we were more than capable of winning. Like I say, it's great we won, but the fact it took pens... leaves we concerned if we are going to have a chance of lifting the cup. I hope my concerns are unfounded, but last night wasn't (in my view) as epic a win as many are making out. If your concern is with the performance rather than the celebrations, that makes more sense. I certainly agree there are still plenty of questions about this England side. I don’t think people were celebrating just because of the win itself - it was the fact that it was such a dramatic and traumatic way to win! If we’d coasted to a 3-0 win the reaction wouldn’t have been quite as extreme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedYoshi Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 1 minute ago, Bristol Rob said: I think the fact we won, masked our inability to see off a game in normal time we were more than capable of winning. Like I say, it's great we won, but the fact it took pens... leaves we concerned if we are going to have a chance of lifting the cup. I hope my concerns are unfounded, but last night wasn't (in my view) as epic a win as many are making out. Completely understand where you’re coming from, but for me it’s precisely the fact that it was on penalties that made it so epic. Had we cleared that header off the line, and won 1-0, it wouldn’t have been celebrated as much. It would have been, as you suggest, a win which should have happened, and people would have been happy but raised certain concerns (like nearly any England match won by a small margin). But the fact that we nearly threw it away, and put ourselves in the position we are all far too familiar with, and then had the wherewithal to actually come through it for once gives it that added sense of importance, and heightens the achievement. Like the old “1-1 from 1-0 up is crap, 1-1 from 1-0 down is great”. It’s not the result that’s being celebrated, but the means. Chuffing champion, if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Various folk making good points in opposition to my view on last night, no complaints there - what is a forum without user generated content! Maybe I'd be more enthusiastic if I wasn't so tired this week. Anyway, on the Saturday (maybe I'll start to believe!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 33 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said: Korey’s goal was the single greatest moment of sport I’ve ever witnessed in person. The only way that I could envisage England surpassing that moment would be if the unthinkable was to happen on Sunday week. Bristol beat Manchester, still as totally underwhelmed by it as I was on the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 8 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said: Bristol beat Manchester, still as totally underwhelmed by it as I was on the day. What an incredibly sad way to look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonGreat Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 2 hours ago, Offside said: Definitely Korey Smith's goal. Brilliant scenes. Pretty much had me in tears for several days after whenever I watched it back. I was like that with Titanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Club above Country. Simple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickolas Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Smith. How anyone can say Dier must be bonkers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderEyed Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 1 hour ago, cidercity1987 said: Bristol beat Manchester, still as totally underwhelmed by it as I was on the day. Why do you watch football then? Surely every game is just City x vs City y? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcofisher Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Korey because England should have absolutely battered Colombia last night, however a Championship team beating a team that finished 2nd in the premier in injury time is otherworldly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Korey. Last night was good and winning a penalty shoot out in the World Cup for first time has nice. However, the Korey goal- was in a great run, a great first half of season and just unbelievable- in a Cup run which had been steadily building momentum through the season and that unbelievable moment- beating the team who have been last minute specialists as well as being major favourites as well as the biggest club in the world in the last minute? To say nothing of the fact there was disgruntlement aplenty about LJ and the team towards the end of 16/17, pessimism too. As an individual moment, , 6 monI don't see how that can be topped tbh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Smith all day long. Was there to see it, soak it in with my four boys, all of us pretty much in tears. Don't think anything will come close anytime soon, if ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBW Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 Smith. International football means nothing to me. We follow City week in, week out. When it comes to internationals we switch on every two years. It just doesn't matter at the end of it. There's no attachment, no new signings, no build up to the new season and #AnnounceTheKit arguments. It's all about club football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redstoke Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 Smiths winner all day long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderEyed Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 20 minutes ago, TBW said: Smith. International football means nothing to me. So you'll be staying in doors quietly and soberly if we win the bloody thing then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 The Smith goal. However it makes me laugh how lots of people love to say they don’t care about England or ‘club over country’ - this World Cup has proven that’s a bit of a myth. People do care about England now that we’ve got a team to be proud of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV Tom Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 Dier’s goal don’t get in my top 20, probably due to the fact that i’ve lost so much enthusiasm for England over the years but in saying that I still get hairs on the back of my neck stand up remembering Italia ‘90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBW Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 13 hours ago, ZiderEyed said: So you'll be staying in doors quietly and soberly if we win the bloody thing then? Yes... I haven't supported England in about 15 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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