Boro's most iconic goal in our 146 year history

Coincidentally.......(and slightly off topic),
Little Smoggie reads the Ali Brownlee quote on the way to every home game as we walk past it.
There was a link to the video footage on twitter this morning so I showed him it. His first time of seeing / hearing the actual commentary and he thought it was ACE. Been running around the house shouting "party, party, party"
 
smogintheforest said:
I've got to agree! Lots of candidates in my nearly 60 years (!) of watching the Boro but this one tops the lot. I'd read the history of our previous 6th round flops from before I was born, was at our quarter final exits at Old Trafford in 1970 and Anfield in1977. Not forgetting Billy Ashcroft's famous miss in the 88th minute v Orient in 1978. (Of course, we lost the replay). And the most painful of all by a long way, Molineux v Wolves in 1981. I thought we'd never ever get past the 6th round in my lifetime. We'd stuffed Derby 6-1 in the League at the Riverside a few days earlier, which made me even more sure (with that wonderful logic us Boro fans have in our DNA), that we were bound to fail at the Baseball Ground in the 6th Round of the Cup. After I'd parked the car before the match, I trudged to the away end trying to forget about the inevitable gut wrenching pain I'd feel on the way back. As for the match, Juninho was unplayable, opened the scoring in the first half and any neutral would have predicted a comfortable Boro win but I was still expecting a late Derby equaliser followed by defeat in the replay. Naturally, as Boro didn't do FA Cup semi-finals! And then, after a wonderful pass from Juninho, to whom the whole Derby defence had been attracted, Rav hit that glorious second in the 90th minute. I can still see it. I finally started to believe and I cheered louder that I'd ever cheered for any Boro goal. Still my all time favourite! UTB and thanks for the memory!
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This one for me n'all. Went, hoping as ever I could make a difference by screaming myself silly, but knowing that the weight of history was against us. Went absolutely mad for ages after the goal, and as I came back to my senses saw the look on the face of a policewoman at the front of the upper tier. That old wooden stand was bouncing up and down and booming like a drum. I think she was worried more for her safety than our sanity 😂 Bam-Bam was trying to hug and kiss everyone on the road outside after, and then we saw the draw against Chesterfield in some roadside caf and, despite "typical Boro", went mental again at the draw going 'for' us😂
 
Been to countless home and away games, never known an atmosphere like it when JFH scored in Rome.
If there was a category for best goalkeeping performance, I’d give it to Schwartzer for that game, unbelievable performance.
No clear winner for me, but other goals of note
Hendrie v Millwall
Stamp v Man City (it followed and bettered an earlier goal from Kinkladze)
Souness away at Stoke (my favourite away top)
Barmby away at Arsenal
Juninho/Emerson away at Man U in the rain, ran Man U ragged that day.
Cattermole header away at Man City.
JFH v Basel
JFH free kick at Man City
Maccarone v Basel and Steaua
Boksic away at Leicester
Viduka away at Birmingham
Viduka v Basel (2nd goal)
Viduka v Charlton
Could include another dozen from Viduka, a complete striker
 
I have to agree with others on here...when I saw the title thread the first goal that instantly came to mind was John Hendrie's full length solo effort against Millwall. I feel that if a "big name" player or "big name" team had scored that goal it would have had much more coverage...and probably still.be mentioned occasionally to this day amongst football pundits etc
 
RG Red said:
Been to countless home and away games, never known an atmosphere like it when JFH scored in Rome.
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I certainly went to that game with the thought process of might as well enjoy our last game in Europe. Might never happen again. Purely there for the experience.
Then that goal went in and the enormity of where we were and what little old Boro were doing hit me like a wave. Never celebrated a goal like it. Took a good 5mins to recover afterwards.
Amazing times
 
anth25 said:
I certainly went to that game with the thought process of might as well enjoy our last game in Europe. Might never happen again. Purely there for the experience.
Then that goal went in and the enormity of where we were and what little old Boro were doing hit me like a wave. Never celebrated a goal like it. Took a good 5mins to recover afterwards.
Amazing times
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Did the ball bearings and bottles of p1ss thrown at us by their ultras not sharpen you up a bit?
 
TeaCider said:
You're listing results, not goals.

Our cup win against Bolton is undoubtedly the iconic result of our history, for me, but I don't think either goal is particularly memorable.
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The goals that won us promotion and put us 3-2 infront then ... that iconic i cant remember off the top of my head who scored them!

Wilkinson and Festa?
 
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