Happy Birthday - is this the best ever??

I don't think its possible to have a best goal ever really.

What I do think is that Frank's and Ibra's goals are both sublime. However it would be unfair to compare the two as they both take a very different sort of technique to pull off.

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"Why you forget about me?! I AM GIROUD. LOOK AT ME. I ALREADY 'AVE LIKE 7 GOALS!!! wow!"

We also have little Theo who is a 20 goal a season player. Shame we are going to sell him for peanuts.

saw Frank doing an after dinner speech. he came over to our table and bought us all drink because he thought we 'laughed the most at his jokes'! Top man.

"When i took over the job at Tranmere we were near the top of the league. By the time they had sacked me at Christmas we were all but relegated... however, every single player could balance the ball on the top of their head by then"

They made such a hype about the Ibra goal. Mexes goal was more important and it wasnt less amazing.

The Mexes goal is better than Ibrahimovic's for me, as he actually had a keeper to beat. It was audacious to even try.

Ibra's, whilst also excellent, was brought in fairness about by Hart charging out, which made his decision a lot easier.

an outrageous goal that he made look so easy! the ibrahimovic goal was also world class but definitely given more hype than it deserved as it was against england.

The Tony Carrs volley is my fave all time goal, Saw it with my own eyes too,, A beaut.

The one against Torquay.....sweet as a nut

It was very lucky to catch something like that on TV. In the 70s, very few matches were filmed for TV. I remember the excitement when you would arrive at Burnden Park and find a temporary Cape Canaveral set up outside - meant we were on MOTD that night.

Frank Worthington was a great character, there were several cast from the same mold, unpopular with England's grim functional national team managers (if you think Gary Megson is miserable and unpleasant, you haven't lived ...). See also Duncan McKenzie and Stan Bowles. Great days.

The only relatively recent equivalent I can think of as a comparison for younger 606ers would be a combination of Matt LeTissier on the pitch and Paul Gascoigne off it.

the guy thought he was Elvis.