This is a Fulham site, but occasionally we discuss other things. Yesterday I saw a goal that will be replayed for a long time, so I wanted to post a video here. Robin van Persie isn’t my favourite footballer, a talented but apparantly egotisical Dutchman, van Persie isn’t someone that come across as being easy to like. But the boy can play. I judge a good goal as a goal that I could never have scored in a million years. If that sounds odd, think about it: some goals look good, but an average park hoofer like me might have been able to pull them off with a bit of luck and a following wind. This is particularly true of things like diving headers and random piledrivers, which don’t need all that much skill (relative to other things done on a football pitch).
Well van Persie’s volley was verging on the impossible. The ball flew over at pace and reached him at around waist height on the edge of the area. He only went and buried the bloody thing, leaping high into the air and releasing a volley of such precise power that the excellent Scott Carson had no chance.
Here it is:
