Absolutely Brilliant Lineker Goal I'd Never Seen

[rabbikeane]

Scott Houghton,
he's same age as Brad Friedel btw

 

[jondesouza]

Scott Houghton,
he's same age as Brad Friedel btw

My favourite ever Spurs game was the 4-1 win against Luton at the Lane. After an hour we were behind to a Mick Harford goal. Then the floodlights failed and we waited about 15 mins for them to come back on again. When play restarted we brought on Houghton and Paul Walsh. We then ran rampant - Houghton scored two as did Lineker. Great times.

 

[mkkid]

Didn't John de Wolf either score or do something? I remember him...

Yes; he marked links out of the game home and away.
We missed a sitter in the first leg in Rotterdam.

 

[mkkid]

My favourite ever Spurs game was the 4-1 win against Luton at the Lane. After an hour we were behind to a Mick Harford goal. Then the floodlights failed and we waited about 15 mins for them to come back on again. When play restarted we brought on Houghton and Paul Walsh. We then ran rampant - Houghton scored two as did Lineker. Great times.

Didnt we have a player sent off in that game as well.

 

[jimtheyid]

What a finisher that man was.

 

[ernie78]

I was at this game, I was about 13 & my Dad had bought us both season tickets. Lineker was my favourite player, In 85/86 I started to really take an interest in football & liked Everton due to him. When he went to Barca I started following Spurs (my dad is a huge fan) so was buzzing when we signed Him. Love the fact he occasionally still refers to Spurs as "us" or "we" too.

 

[Graysonti]

My favourite ever Spurs game was the 4-1 win against Luton at the Lane. After an hour we were behind to a Mick Harford goal. Then the floodlights failed and we waited about 15 mins for them to come back on again. When play restarted we brought on Houghton and Paul Walsh. We then ran rampant - Houghton scored two as did Lineker. Great times.

I think I was at this game.

Is this game Paul Stewart came of age as midfielder. He has previously struggled as striker with a massive price tag (£1.8m)

 

[lloydi200182]

Great goal, I had that shirt as a boy, god its awful looking back at it now haha, actually why were we wearing our away kit at home?

 

[Chris Flynn]

So AVB would have been 14/15 when this goal happened. Was he doing his reports for Robson then at Porto? I imagine he would have seen the goal either way

 

[Pharaoh]

I was at this game and remember those two goals. The first one actually comes off his hand but the build up play was exceptional and one of the best Spurs performances I had seen in a long time.

I think the controversy with de Wolf at the Lane, which I was lucky enough to go to as well, was not just for his man-marking but if I remember correctly he kept the ball out of the net with his hand, which went unspotted by the officials.

 

[Riandor]

Gary Lineker was the player that made me love football and love spurs... He is the reason i am on this website today. I loved everything about that man.

I was almost disappointed when i found it he was more of a Leicester man, but only for a small while.

The first goal is just wankbank.

 

[Shea]

I remember that goal so well - never went to the game but the next round against Feyenord was my first ever European night at the Lane

Amazing team goal - had it been scored by Utd or the Arsenal Untouchables it would have been screened over and over again for decades to come like Maradonna's goal in the 86 world cup, Best's goal against Benfica, Giggs's against Arsenal or....well you get the point

As it is it's a goal that this thread proves some of our own fans have never even seen before - clearly doesn't get the respect it deserves (so much more overall quality that Beckham lobbing Sullivan from inside his own half - but TV will never stop showing that)

 

[Spurs Lodge Kittens]

I knew it was going to be this goal even before I opened the thread. A goal that sums up the Spurs way

 

[DiscoD1882]

I wonder if he will come out of retirement. Never really smashed the ball. Was always in the right place. Great striker. Loved that kit too. The spurs number 10's we had some great ones

 

[KenilworthSpur]

I think I was at this game.

Is this game Paul Stewart came of age as midfielder. He has previously struggled as striker with a massive price tag (£1.8m)

I still call my mum Paul Stewart because of her tight perm....

Did a great job in midfield for us at the time and like so many others his career went downhill after he left us for 'bigger' clubs

 

[tippspur59]

I had forgotten that goal also,class built up and typical Lineker finish.

 

[jondesouza]

I still call my mum Paul Stewart because of her tight perm....

Did a great job in midfield for us at the time and like so many others his career went downhill after he left us for 'bigger' clubs

For some reason when he went to Liverpool he was converted back to being a striker. And wasn't very good at it.

 

[guiltyparty]

Different gravy, Lineker

Our kingdom for a striker like him right about now

 

[jackson]

Pretty sure it was given 'goal of the season' on MOTD that year.

 

[myhartlane]

The good olde days when we had a world class striker. probably one of Garys more dramatic goal, he just had that uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time.

Yeah, he was always in the right place at the right time. But I think it was actually the very opposite of uncanny but in fact extremely canny and intelligent.