The locations of some of the greatest goals are identifiable not by the players who scored them, but the nets the ball ended up in
Friday, January 27, 2017
Match of the Day - Week 23
Our Week 23 fixture is Middlesbrough v West Brom.
Match of the Day comes from Ayresome Park in February 1991, when both sides were languishing in League Division 2.
Yes, it's a five-goal thriller, the winner is an 87th minute howler from the West Brom goalie and where, in this era of compulsory under-soil heating do you ever see snow piled behind the goals?
But our eyes are drawn inexorably to the narrow, cool-as, stanchions holding up the goal nets. Guys on Twitter told me the stanchions at one end of the ground are narrower than at the other; check them out.
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ayresome park,
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west bromwich albion
Friday, January 13, 2017
Match of the Day - Week 21
This week's Match of the Day is Watford v Middlesbrough at Vicarage Road from late 1999.
Middlesbrough ran out 1-3 winners and, though there is no sound on the clip, what you may find most remarkable is the Vicarage Road nets still hanging off Continental D's for a Premier League game in 1999.
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continental d,
middlesbrough,
vicarage road,
watford
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