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Striker
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Can't stop watching Tommy Watson (ROCKETMAN)
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dred73
Winger
I sincerely hope he has a brilliant career.
I love to see local lads do well.
Lipso
Striker
I keep telling people about this but haven’t been able to find it since. It takes his goal to another level for me. It wasn’t an in the moment attempt of hope, it was a well practiced, perfectly executed shot which he knew
he could do.What a lad.
I see we found it
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Should be put on a Sheff Utd forum. It would piss them off a treat.I keep telling people about this but haven’t been able to find it since. It takes his goal to another level for me. It wasn’t an in the moment attempt of hope, it was a well practiced, perfectly executed shot which he knew
What a lad.
I see we found it
Floyd
Striker
The pair hugging each other who come into frame from the left around the 30 second mark…
There’s a vid from a fans’ phone behind & to the left of the goal which is unreal. I had to watch it 1/2 a dozen times to believe it actually went in, the trajectory of the ball at the 6 yard line indicates it’s going wide (& not by a bit), what happens thereafter beggars belief…I’ve watched that 20 times and I’m still thinking ‘it’s not going in’ unreal
Not itk by any means but the story I’ve heard is he simply wanted to get his dad a house to make him financially secure, the move enabled Tommy to do this straight away. He sounds a quite canny lad
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Montreal Mackem
Central Defender
Love watching this but the whole final was tinged with a little sadness for me as one of my big mates Dave Deacon (Sheffield united) who I went to both semis in 98 with passed a couple of years ago and the final just brought back so many memories, knowing Dave he would say get over it and get another pint, see you later big man
Zak's Dad
Striker
As a comparison to your tattoo "work of art" - the response and body language of the Sheffield Utd players is an (unsurprisingly) picture of dispair.
As Le Fee collapses it looks like Moore is about to too.
The rest of them just turn away and avoid each others gaze.
There's a real sense of "that's it, it's over".
Lipso
Striker
I especially revel in Tom Davies reaction
Spennymoor72
Full Back
Unreal still get goosebumps
Zak's Dad
Striker
To be fair it looks exactly what it was - absolutely crushing.
They'd been watching us get back into the game, then equalise, then score that goal in that manner.
Normally I'm the worst one to wait for the final whistle - I can never enjoy being ahead during a match, I'm always stressed until the final whistle goes - but that match I didn't feel any stress, I just assumed they'd never get one back.
And I think the Sheffield United team thought that too.
From their perspective that must have been a f***ing crushing goal to concede - no matter how it was scored.
busta777
Winger
In the car yesterday, Heart 70s on radio, Rocket man came on, immediately conjoured the images of Tommy curling the ball in and the ensuing pandemonium
Kent Boy 2
Striker
I am exactly the same. I think Tommy is a superb player, I’ve loved watching him in youth cup and PL2 games over the years, he’s got so much talent. However… I’m not sure that he will get to the very, very top of the game, so that might well be the top highlight of career. I hope that he has spent some time over the past few weeks really letting what he has done sink in, and appreciating the enormity of what it means to so many people. To score the winning goal at Wembley happens a few times a year, to score it in injury time is very rare, to score it for your boyhood club is almost unheard of, and do it as a teenager for a club like Sunderland in a game as important and massive as that…. WOW!
I watched the final of the Super Rugby tournament this morning. As soon as the final whistle went, they started playing Freed from Desire on the stadium PA system, cue totally random scenes of pandemonium in a quiet house in the middle of KentIn the car yesterday, Heart 70s on radio, Rocket man came on, immediately conjoured the images of Tommy curling the ball in and the ensuing pandemonium
. Like you I was transported back to Wembley in an instant!
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nandos sonic sauce
Striker
A Southampton season ticket holder who is a good mate at work said "The 1st goal you scored was a great strike, but not so much the 2nd one" I just started laughing saying "What? He bent it perfectly into the only gap it could have gone. Yes it wasn't hit at 100MPH but how is that not a good strike?"
Lipso
Striker
It was one of the best goals I’ve ever seen.A Southampton season ticket holder who is a good mate at work said "The 1st goal you scored was a great strike, but not so much the 2nd one" I just started laughing saying "What? He bent it perfectly into the only gap it could have gone. Yes it wasn't hit at 100MPH but how is that not a good strike?"
Currently in Airbnb in Saltburn, our lass can’t work out why I’m tearful, she’s in York Tuesday night, gonna watch the whole game back with beers and a curry 
Kent Boy 2
Striker
I must have watched it more than 100 times now, and I must confess that every time I see it I think to myself -“how did it go in?”. Any faster and the spin wouldn’t have curled it enough, any slower and it wouldn’t have got past the keeper by the time his fingertips got there. Any loft and the friction of the grass wouldn’t have allowed the ball to bend in the way it did. A few inches left and the keeper would have got it, a few inches right and it would have hit the post. And finally a fraction of an inch difference to the contact on his boot and it wouldn’t have done what it did. And he did it from 20+ yards in the 95th minute of the richest club game in football in the world’s most iconic stadium, in front of his own fans. I see what he means - “not so much the second one”A Southampton season ticket holder who is a good mate at work said "The 1st goal you scored was a great strike, but not so much the 2nd one" I just started laughing saying "What? He bent it perfectly into the only gap it could have gone. Yes it wasn't hit at 100MPH but how is that not a good strike?"
When he hit it, I didn’t think it was going to go in, and took half a second to realise he had scored as I was watching in a pub on holiday.
The opposite to Ballard’s against Coventry. I sit in the NEC and started celebrating when it hit the bar, hoping/ expecting it to go in.
The opposite to Ballard’s against Coventry. I sit in the NEC and started celebrating when it hit the bar, hoping/ expecting it to go in.
Lipso
Striker
Get in mate! Perfect!I must have watched it more than 100 times now, and I must confess that every time I see it I think to myself -“how did it go in?”. Any faster and the spin wouldn’t have curled it enough, any slower and it wouldn’t have got past the keeper by the time his fingertips got there. Any loft and the friction of the grass wouldn’t have allowed the ball to bend in the way it did. A few inches left and the keeper would have got it, a few inches right and it would have hit the post. And finally a fraction of an inch difference to the contact on his boot and it wouldn’t have done what it did. And he did it from 20+ yards in the 95th minute of the richest club game in football in the world’s most iconic stadium, in front of his own fans. I see what he means - “not so much the second one”
