Yesterday,
I lied. Well, that's a lie. I wrote something I believed to be the
case, but it has turned out to be untrue- namely, that I was today to
write about co-inkydinks and submarines. However, I have to react to
what I saw yesterday. England lost four goals to
two against Sweden. Never mind that England lost, never mind that the
50,000 crowd were about as noisy as the cast of The Only Way is Essex
explaining Cartesian Dualism whilst in a vacuum. The important thing
is that Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a goal of such skill as to
instantly be hailed as one of the best goals ever. It was tenacious,
it was sublime, it was perfect technique, it was super sexy is what
I'm trying to say. Joe Hart tried to clear the ball with his head as
he was outside the 18 yard box and he could only head it vertically.
Ibrahimovic, who had already scored a hat-trick in this, the national
stadium's opening game thought “D'you know what? I know I'm 30
yards out and facing away from goal, but I'm going to score from here
with one touch of the ball because I want to be remembered as scoring
one of the best goals of all time.” And it was.
I have been
watching football since I can remember, and I have seen many a great
goal from before then. Zlatan scoring like this was the first time
I'd seen anything like this- for one thing, his foot's 8 feet off the ground when he kicks it. I love how I can still see things that
are new in the most popular sport of all time. When the ball went in,
I made some sort of noise that I think I will not be able to
replicate. I then stood up and started to applaud at the television
screen. This isn't a particularly good article, but I had to just say
how excellent that goal was. I
suspect it's the best goal I've ever seen live. I don't think I may
ever see a better one, but I live in hope.
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