Memorable Headed Goals

[monkeywrench]

Probably wouldn't make the top 3 but an honourable mention for Cosgrove v Sheffield Wednesday right at the death last season

Technically a good a header as any of them. Ball behind him and had to generate all the power. Brilliant header.

Highlights | Plymouth Argyle 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday

Sam Cosgrove emerged from the Argyle bench to head in a dramatic late winner and send Home Park wild with joy. Ryan Hardie had given the Greens a perfect sta...

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[monkeywrench]

Tynans V Bristol City? Probably my all time favorite night at Home Park.

Plymouth Argyle v Bristol City 1985-86

Argyle clinched promotion with a 4-0 demolition of Bristol City on one of the most memorable nights in their history. Two goals from Tommy Tynan, one from Ga...

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[Chris Rogers]

Paul Williams vs Colchester for me, purely because it came SO late in the game. We were just minutes away from never even experiencing that Wembley occasion.

Littlejohn getting tripped when clean through, and the Colchester lad only getting a yellow, had already whipped the crowd into a frenzy.

And if there was one player you WOULDN’T have put money on scoring a headed winner, it was Paul Williams! What a night that was.

 

[monkeywrench]

Paul Williams vs Colchester for me, purely because it came SO late in the game. We were just minutes away from never even experiencing that Wembley occasion.

Littlejohn getting tripped when clean through, and the Colchester lad only getting a yellow, had already whipped the crowd into a frenzy.

And if there was one player you WOULDN’T have put money on scoring a headed winner, it was Paul Williams! What a night that was.

Yeah absolute scenes!

 

[jerryatricjanner]

The earliest memorable headed goal I recall was Hughie Reed's flying header at the Devonport End in the early 70s. He was the shortest player in the Football league at just 5 feet 4 inches.
Other notable ones for me were 'Charlie' Williams against Colchester, Mauge at Wembley, Evans against QPR, Hartley against Pompey and now Edwards against Hull.

 

[GreenAllOver]

Steve Cooper scored some beauties but I recall an incredible one from the edge of the box. Home game, evening kick off from memory but I can’t recall the opponent (Bournemouth, perhaps?). An ex high jumper and one of my favourites when I was growing up. Sadly gone but not forgotten.

When i read the thread title, that was the first one that came into my head, was a teenage lad in the Lyndhurst and was in line with it. I believe it was Bournemouth and has been in-printed into my head ever since. Cooper had springs on his feet and would soar above the defenders.

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[April 1971]

The earliest memorable headed goal I recall was Hughie Reed's flying header at the Devonport End in the early 70s. He was the shortest player in the Football league at just 5 feet 4 inches.
Other notable ones for me were 'Charlie' Williams against Colchester, Mauge at Wembley, Evans against QPR, Hartley against Pompey and now Edwards against Hull.

Hughie Reed was against Torquay on Boxing Day I believe, possibly 1972, what a goal.

 

[mervyn]

The most powerful, unstoppable header ever scored at HP was surely Paul Ince’s own goal playing for Wolves. It was a thing of beauty, and the look on his face afterwards was worth the entrance fee alone.

 

[jerryatricjanner]

Hughie Reed was against Torquay on Boxing Day I believe, possibly 1972, what a goal.

1971 in a 3-1 win in front of 20,000 plus. Very sad that he was found dead at home at the age of 42.

 

[BCR]

Most of my top favourites have already been mentioned but Mark Smith's equalizer against Man City in 1988 also sticks in the mind. In and of itself it wasn't particularly outstanding in any way, but it was the first game I went to at Home Park with a 10,000+ crowd, the first time I'd seen us come back from 2-0 down to win and the first time I experienced that feeling of 'this is going to be a goal' as soon as the ball left John Matthews' boot. In my mind it was a towering header through a crowd of players from about 12 yards out, the ball travelling so fast that it came to rest somewhere on Outland Road. YouTube shows that the mind has embellished things over the years; shame on you YouTube, I'll cling to the version I remember instead

 

[Tamargreen]

Not many people would have seen it but saw John Sims score with a superb diving header from a Kevin Hodges cross at Chester circa 1982-not an important goal in the overall picture but up there with the best in terms of team play and finishing.

 

[rongreenblood]

Far less crucial but will always remember David Friio scoring two last min headers v Gillingham in our first season back in the championship in 2004/05. Came from nowhere to win 2-1.

Remember that well, many had already left the ground assuming that it was going to be a 1-0 loss, Oh ye of little faith!

 

[rongreenblood]

Probably wouldn't make the top 3 but an honourable mention for Cosgrove v Sheffield Wednesday right at the death last season

Agree, He made sure of that one all right after a similar one was deemed to not to have crossed the line.

 

[Doctor Wu]

Brian Bason with a diving header against Exeter (I think ) in the late 1970's.

 

[Dale Aven]

Vivid memory of a match report from 1989, Lost 3 - 1 to Sunderland but Greg Campbell (who did not score many) got Argyle's goal from a 40 yard header. Have never seen it, but sounds like a cracker.
Of course the memory may Cheat.