Most freakish GAA score

pjbrady1

My two pence,

In a national school match in Foxford in Mayo a player (won't name him he was nine or ten at time) took a shot for a point.
1. The ball hits the right upright,
2. Bounces onto the crossbar
3. Starts to roll along the crossbar
4. Hits the left upright
5. Falls down in front of the goals
6. Bounces hits the left upright
7. Goes over the line for a goal.

Everyone who witnessed their jaws dropped. It always crops up once a year in pub conversation in that town.

Culchie

I must have been in goal for that

starman100

Reminds me of a goal Jimmy Browne scored/scuffed for Mayo many moons ago in the Connaught championship against Ros or Galway, can't remember who (Mayo fans might remember)...........

Culchie

starman100 wrote:

Reminds me of a goal Jimmy Browne scored/scuffed for Mayo many moons ago in the Connaught championship against Ros or Galway, can't remember who (Mayo fans might remember)...........

Jimmy Burke maybe? Around 1985-87 or so I'd guess.

cournioni

When I was playing u12, I played full forward and against our rivals the ball came off the left upright rolled along the crossbar. I was taller than all of the players at the time so I grabbed it off the bar as it was rolling and stuck it in the net with my right foot. I am predominantly left footed so that I must say was quite a freakish score I must say! Also at u12 I had a goal disallowed for heading the ball into the net...

Was on the recieving end of a very strange goal in the JFC this year too. Eamon Reilly from Shannon Gaels took a shot, hit the bar, came off my back, I scramble back to get it off the line and sort of scoop it off the line only for it to hit one of their players on the knee and go in.

In the JFC in 2000, against our rivals Drumgoon (aka. Goonie bastards), the Goonies hit the ball into no one in particular. It was about ten yards wide of the goal, our keeper at the time came out to collect it before it went out. It hit a divot on the pitch and changed direction like I've never seen a ball change direction and ended up in the far corner of the net. Sickening goal to concede.

The Rooster

PORNAPSTER wrote:

Also at u12 I had a goal disallowed for heading the ball into the net...

It is gas the way a lot of refs won't stand for "that kinda nonsense"!

Donegal scored a headed goal (I think it was Brendan Devenny) in a league game against London in Ruislip 5 or 6 years ago. The goal stood, but none of the match reports in the national newspapers called the goal a header.

pjbrady1

In an u16 game (might have been minor) against Moy Davitts a Ballaghadereen player met a crossing ball from at least 15 yards out with a header, the ball curled ferociously from right to left and hit the right upright.
Ref shouted out "if it went in it wouldn't have stood".
Always thought it was a lunatic of an attempt for goal from that distance.
As I understand it Headed goals should stand.

Supermanscat

Why wouldnt it have stood? Ive always thought u could head a ball into the net? We were playing Carrick On Shannon in a schools game, our centre half back booted the ball up the field, their full back slipped and as the goalie went out to get it he sliped to! Oddest goal ive ever seen!

Mushy

This sint that strange compared to some of them here, but back in 6th class, playing a match, I was full back, the ball up the far end of the pitch. My friend is full forward. He's about 5 feet from the goals, takes a shot, and it goes flying over the bar. The fact that he manged to lift his foot over his head in the process was the funny part, nearly nailed the opposing keeper aswell. It still comes up in conversations today

J.R.HARTLEY

pjbrady1 wrote:

As I understand it Headed goals should stand.

your right, you can put the ball in with your mickey if you should so choose, just as long as you don't hand pass it into the goal

stooge

I remember a game of football in school when I was 16. I kicked a high ball into the box for a fella who hadn't really played before. He headed it from just inside the square and the ball whacked off the crossbar, came back and hit him clean on the nose, hit the post and went in. legend.

Also, playing soccer a couple of years ago I scored two goals in the same match were the ball hit one post then the other and went in.

pjbrady1

I remember a game of football in school when I was 16. I kicked a high ball into the box for a fella who hadn't really played before. He headed it from just inside the square and the ball whacked off the crossbar, came back and hit him clean on the nose, hit the post and went in. legend.

I would have cried laughing if playing in that game, funniest score I'v ever heard of

hawker

I remember playing an u14 match. The referee threw in the ball after half time and our midfielder caught it and soloed his way towards our own goal. He managed to solo all the way to the 21 and luckily for him he ballooned it wide. The referee nearly forgot to give the opposing side a 50. He had obviously forgotten that we had changed ends or else maybe he had a few quid on the other crowd.

Strictly not a score but unusual all the same.

Kojak

hawker wrote:

I remember playing an u14 match. The referee threw in the ball after half time and our midfielder caught it and soloed his way towards our own goal. He managed to solo all the way to the 21 and luckily for him he ballooned it wide. The referee nearly forgot to give the opposing side a 50. He had obviously forgotten that we had changed ends or else maybe he had a few quid on the other crowd.

Our local camogie team used to have the same problem - some players forgot to play in the opposite direction and began to try scoring in their own goal. Unfortunatly it worked once - our wing back scored a goal on her own team. The team lost by 2 points

Byrno

Was at a Junior B game there a few years ago where the ball was hit into the full forward line, hit the top of the head of a certain former Republic of Ireland soccer player and went into the goal. It counted too!

Personally I've only ever scored once, it was an own point! It was an U.14s game and I was in goals. In my defence there was a fierce wind blowing into my face. Anyway the ball dropped short and I caught it. A forward ran up and was standing in front of me. So I decided to try and kick it over him. Unfortunately it went up into the air and the wind carried it over my head and over the bar. Almost got lynched by my team mates. I've never lived it down.

abelard

I remember one time (u-16 I think) I was playin midfield and booted the ball up towards one of our forwards, and the opposing keeper (being a dirty knob), took him out with a shoulder before the ball had arrived (why the ref played on I'll never know), but anyway, the ball then hit a divot or something and smacked the keeper in the face. I think he got a bit of a shock, so he stumbled and fell, so our forward popped up, picked up the ball and smacked it past the hopelessly flailing keeper.......only to hit the crossbar, the ball came back and hit the now raising keeper on the back of the head, and in.

I sh1t you not. It took a few minutes for play to restart, as everyone (excepting the keeper) was laughing too hard.