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
Showing posts with label ball retention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ball retention. Show all posts
Monday, October 31, 2016
The Big Match - Week 10
The Big Match comes from the afternoon of Halloween, 1981.
It's West Ham v Middlesbrough at the Boleyn Ground.
Though the Boleyn nets are famously shallow, ball retention is helped by the stanchions planted just off the grass, which creates a narrow trench that slows or stops the ball.
Given the box nets of 2016 - pulled tight as smiles at Brad Pitt's house and made of trampoline - would Ray Stewart's penalty for 3-0 have rebounded to the half way line?
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ball retention,
boleyn ground,
middlesbrough,
west ham
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