What was flukey? He got into space, saw the ball coming at an apparently impossible angle, adjusted his body shape and lobbed it over a six-foot-plus keeper, standing a yard away. Jesus wept.
But that's not really the point. The point is there was nobody casting begrudging remarks about say, Mata's flick on to Smalling the other night (to use a topical example, rather than bang the Rag-infested-media drum).
And nor should there have been. It was a great bit of skill that worked out extremely well (had a defender checked Smalling's run, Mata would have been pilloried for attempting it but it worked out, so fair play to him).
Shearer's snide comment reminded me of how Lickle Mikey Owen felt the urge, a whole week later, to inform the world that "a little bird told me that Yaya didn't really mean that (wonder goal in the CoC Final)".
Both goals were superb and, to be fair, have been largely hailed as such. What niggles me though is if Harry Kane or Eden Hazard had scored either, no fucker would stoop to such unsporting depths as to insinuate otherwise. I remember Dalglish score a goal similar to De Bruyne's (in a League Cup Final too, at Maine Rd, as it happens) and it is still recalled for what it was, a magical piece of skill and timing -rightly so.
When City players do it, there's always a caveat from some bitter dickhead. Maybe, I'm being over sensitive but I don't think so.
