Best (rather than favourite) Ever City Goal?

Dave Watson header from a corner.

Magnificent header, incredible power and a magic moment!

 
OB1 said:
Rodney Marsh scored an overhead kick that I swear was better than Tueart's at Wembley but sadly there's no TV footage I am aware of ... to refresh the memory.
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I missed out by a few weeks on seeing both Marsh and the pre-knee injury Colin Bell play for City. Marsh made his last appearance in November 1975 and Bell sustained his injury in the same month, while my first game was on Boxing Day the same year. I believe that Rodney's overhead kick came against QPR, of all teams, in September 1974. It's referred to here, at the start of part 2 of the biography by Ian Penney: http://www.sporting-heroes.net/foot...of-his-career-at-man-city-for-england_a11853/

I remember my late uncle telling me that Marsh scored two wonder goals at Maine Road in the space of four days in April 1973, and I also recall Peter Gardner reminiscing about them in the Football Pink in the 1980s. We played Sheffield United on the Saturday, when he scored a 'worldie' and Newcastle the following Wednesday evening, when he notched another that was supposedly even better. Again, there's no footage of either goal, so only those present at the two games (only 52K in total) will ever have seen them.

FWIW, here are what I see as Marsh's best two goals in City colours that are available on Youtube:

This one against Derby, the final match of the 1971/2 season, when we ended a point off top spot having led the table by a distance when Rodney was signed the previous month - the goal is at the beginning of the clip:



And his second goal as he scored both in this 2-1 win over Southampton in December 1972 - the move leading to it starts just after 2 mins 40 secs:

 
Many stand out both from the past & present.

It's impossible to pick just one but slightly left field I'll go for the Giovanni one when we beat the rags 1-0.
 
Some belters on here -

Not sure how to link from you tube etc but a couple I recall :

Clive Allen Chelsea Away last minute was a beaut

And always liked the Bellamy goal away at Swamp - top corner rocket
 
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