A-list A-frames - Torquay United

Shame to read of the problems at Torquay United in the new WSC.

Four years after the club lost its their Football League status, it must be hard for Gulls fans to remember better days.

But who could forget the late-80's League Cup tussle versus Tottenham and the totally brilliant Plainmoor A-frames?



Or the Play-Off penalty shoot-out at Wembley in 1991?

Three things to note -

1 - Torquay's 2nd penalty (about 4:00) gets jammed behind the Wembley stanchion; fantastic!

2 - Blackpool's fifth penalty (about 7:30) is maybe the worst penalty you'll ever see.

3 - The old Wembley stanchions. Still beautiful after all these years...

UEFA Europa League - SSC Napoli

European competition resumes this week and the History of Goal Nets is going to look at those clubs playing in the last 32 of the Europa League, kicking off with SSC Napoli.

Still the fourth best supported side in Italy, the Napoli of today boasts stars such as Edinson Cavani, and a stadium with modern box nets. Dig those blue ground supports...




25 years ago the San Paolo boasted the King of Naples and A-frames straight off the A-list.



Twenty years prior to that, you knew you were watching Napoli when you saw their Iron Man set of stanchions.

UEFA Champions League - FC Porto

Continuing this season's Champions League participants' History of Goal Nets with the 1987 champions, FC Porto.

On their way to that 1987 title, The Dragons edged out their 2012 Group A opponents Dynamo Kyiv, firing a double into the Continental D's at the old Estadio das Antas.




Three years earlier Porto won the Cup Winners Cup, coming from 0-2 behind to sweep past Shakhtar Donetsk in the quarter-finals.

But these are incidentals, a mere introduction to the 1984 Antas architecure, these stellar L-supports on steroids.

Off the stanchions at Wembley - Keith Houchen

The best diving header from one of the best cup finals at Wembley?

You'll see from the replay it goes in off the post... but rebounds out, off the stanchion