Best Ever Headed City Goal

KS55 said:
The return match at Leeds Rd. was also rammed. We and Hudds fought out the title for much of that season.
Crossan was superb for us in that promotion year, even tho' he was approaching the end of his career. He had an amazing personal story which included a life ban for standing up to the mafia who ran Irish football in those days. Worth looking up.
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He moved to Holland and Belgium to play because of that ban and only returned to Sunderland after it was fully lifted. I remember Crossan coming to Maine Road with Sunderland and destroying our defence. I was delighted when he signed for City a couple of years later.
 
I've always admired Dzeko at Spurs (he also scored a great header at Everton in 2014) but...

Hinchcliffe in the 5-1:

Kompany vs. United in 2012:

Worth mentioning a couple of Aguero headers, starting with this vs. Everton in the league cup semi:

And his last goal for the club:

Now I'm thinking, there are loads to consider!
 
JGL07 said:
He moved to Holland and Belgium to play because of that ban and only returned to Sunderland after it was fully lifted. I remember Crossan coming to Maine Road with Sunderland and destroying our defence. I was delighted when he signed for City a couple of years later.
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Would make a fine no.10 in the modern game.
 
jimharri said:
Too lazy to trawl back through 10 pages, but I'm assuming my two nominations have long since been nominated.
1. Big Dave against Ipswich. What a bullet of a header. And, not far behind....
2. Mick Mccarthy against the unmentionables. Both at the North stand end of Maine Road.


Younger BMers, ask your dads about Maine Road.
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They wont believe just how magic a full MR, with the Kippax rammed, was. Nothing like it today.
 
KS55 said:
They wont believe just how magic a full MR, with the Kippax rammed, was. Nothing like it today.
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Agreed The Etihad is a fantastic stadium. But, like most modern stadia, it seems a bit soulless in comparison. But Maine Rd was looking a bit of a mess come the early 2000s. We probably had no real option, but to move at that stage. Two games I'll always remember in Moss Side, the FA Cup replay against Everton in '81 (the old place was heaving that night), and the 4-0 against utd in the league cup in '75. It was mayhem in the Kippax that night, and I was only 12 at the time, and couldn't punch my way out of a wet paper bag. Still can't, truth be told.
 
JGL07 said:
He moved to Holland and Belgium to play because of that ban and only returned to Sunderland after it was fully lifted. I remember Crossan coming to Maine Road with Sunderland and destroying our defence. I was delighted when he signed for City a couple of years later.
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Good article about Johnny Crossan here. There’s a Guardian podcast about him as well
www.google.co.uk

The forgotten story of ... John Crossan's ban from football | Simon Burnton

Simon Burnton: Banned for 'life' in 1959, the former Northern Ireland forward can consider himself the most harshly treated footballer of all time
www.google.co.uk www.google.co.uk
 
JGL07 said:
A diving header by Johnny Crossan v Huddersfield on New Years Day 1966. There were over 47,000 in Maine Road for that match, City’s biggest crowd in years.

A photographer behind the goal managed to catch it just right with Crossan in mid air. That snap was plastered all over the papers the next day.
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Sorry Blue but you‘re incorrect there! The first goal against Huddersfield that day was indeed a diving header at the Scoreboard End in the first half.. but it was Mike ‘Tommy’ Doyle who scored it!

Our captain Johnny Crossan got the second that day, at the Platt Lane End from the penalty spot (where I was sitting with The Old Man, unusually for us as we mostly stood on the Scoreboard). There was a delay in taking it due to the trainer being on the field a while tending the player who had been fouled. Crossan made a big play of washing his boot clean in the trainer’s bucket prior to taking the penalty to fool the keeper, then took it with the other ‘unclean’ foot!

Some great goals from down the years remembered on here, been lovely to recall them.. but it was some header by Mike Doyle that day, still vivid in my memory.. and reminds me of a similar goal by Matt Gray against Forest a couple of years earlier (a Good Friday game, I recall which we won 1-0.. Gray was really good in the air, joining us like Alex Harley from Third Lanark.. they couldn’t stop us from going down that season, though!)

Eeeee, ‘appy days!
 
KS55 said:
A really old one. Bobby Kennedy vs Bolton, MR 1966 (?) Bullet header from edge of the box. Anyone else remember that, or has my addled old brain made it up?
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Yeah, spot on.. We battered Wanderers 4-1 that day, the week after Easter when we‘d lost at Bury 1-2 to end a decent unbeaten run on the way to the 2nd Division title.. I think Allison gave them a rocket up their collective jaxie for losing at Gigg Lane and we took it out on Bolton! Kennedy’s header was really powerful as you say, a real stand out goal!
 
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