Here’s a tidbit for soccer lovers. I’m sure this has happened before (readers?), but I’ve never seen it. In this video of a game from August 9, Hibernian goalkeeper Mark Oxley scores a goal against Livingston on a kick out from his own goal. Hibernian won this one 2-1 in the Scottish Professional Football League Championship tournament, which, as far as I know, is still going on.
I remember Pat Jennings, the Spurs goalkeeper, scoring a similar goal in 1967 against Manchester United. It doesn’t happen that often!
Tim Howard scored a goal, I think for Everton, very similar to that. It was not too long ago, maybe earlier this year?
Here is USA goalkeeper Tim Howard scoring the winning goal in the Barclays Premier League. In an interview, he stated that he chose not to celebrate, as the Hibs keeper did, since it was just too embarrassing for his opponent.
http://youtu.be/omO1PQehOUc
Howard is pretty cool. That was impressive.
Every seasonit happens but its a great moment for any GK
There’s a compilation of goalkeeper goals here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioscxY7gKQ4
Several are not the “bounce over” type, but the more exciting (to me) kind when keepers score off of late corner kicks (when a team desperate to win/tie will send its keeper forward). The second one in the compilation is Brad Friedel’s score for Blackburn against Charlton on a corner kick. (He did not score directly off the corner, but put in a rebound off the initial shot).
I’ve seen a goalie score from defense in a professional indoor soccer game, but of course the field is a lot shorter. (In fact, I think the goal came from a THROW rather than a kick.) The insulted keeper on the other team made some predictable gestures, but a goal is a goal.
Wow! I never ever expected to see my beloved Hi-bees on WEIT!
I was at the game and I can tell you it was a tremendous surprise to everyone. I’ve been going to Football for 40 years – I’ve a season book at Easter Rd (the Hibs’ stadium) – and I’ve never seen a goalie score.
All throughout the rest of the match, whenever Oxley had the ball, there we’re calls of SHOOT from the crowd.
Hibernian are in the 2nd tier of the SPFL (we are usually in the top tier but we were relegated at the end of a horrendous season, for only the 3rd time in 80 years) and the Livingston match was the first of the new season to hopefully win promotion back up to where we belong; only another 35 to go.
How about goalkeeper own goals? These are more common …
I can’t believe those goals count. Isn’t that icing?
I suspect you’re kidding.
But if you mean offside, which is the soccer infraction that serves the equivalent purpose, that only restricts which offesnsive players can touch the ball, it doesn’t restrict the path of the ball itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offside_(association_football)
Offside in football is not the equivalent of icing in ice hockey.
Offside in football is the equivalent of offside in ice hockey …
AFAIK there is no equivalent of icing. Perhaps time-wasting?
The best I’d seen was a bored Mark Bosnitch keeping goal for Australia. I can’t remember what team they were up against but is was one of those teams ranked so far down that hardly anyone’s heard of them. Mark got the ball, ran down the field and scored a goal. I didn’t think the goalkeeper was allowed to play the full field.
AFAIK he can, but he can only use his hands inside his own penalty box – outside it, he’s just another player. And see the comments above about bringing the goalie forward in last-minute corner situations.
Yeah, a little attempt at inter-sport humor.
This was supposed to be a reply to Latverian Diplomat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTTCZnNoUeQ
From one of last sunday’s games in the Dutch first national league. Excelsior-Go Ahead Eagles.
In the 1923-4 Football League Third Division North Season (third tier of pro-football in England) Arnold Birch goalkeeper for Chesterfield scored five goals. He was the designated penalty taker and all his goals came from the spot. I think five in a season is a domestic record.
http://www.cfchistory.com/arnold-birch
I haven’t been to this site for awhile and, having only briefly visited previously, I have no recollection of what I did see that time. All I can say is that I struggle to see what the link between cats on areoplanes and goalies scoring goals has anything to the telling us why evolution is true.
As for Old Blue Eyes on religion: “When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday — cash me out”…… You can count me out too!!!
The key point is “lip service”. Paying lip service gets you nowhere, especially when your “absolution on Sunday” is done with the unchanging knowledge of exactly what you’ll be doing on Wednesday. These people are hypocrites and will be judged accordingly, they act contrary to the faith they profess to have.
Apparently you haven’t read the Roolz, or are ignoring them. Do not tell me what to write about. I am in fact glad that you’re leaving, as you’re the kind of rude person we don’t want around here. And, of course, you’ll never post here again.