van Persies goal

[Guest Jack Bauer]

Is it me, or does it hit his shin?

[Guest Portly]

I agree there was something not quite right about the way van Persie volleyed the goal. It may have been genius, but it may have been a total fluke. I don't suppose the Gooners are too worried either way.

[Andy @ Allerton]

Shouldn't have been on the pitch

[libero]

Is it me, or does it hit his shin?

I thought it was just me who thought that, kept rrying to get a better look to convince myself he hit it with his foot but by what I have seen it still looks like shin.

 

Great goal though

[JohnnyH]

I saw your thread title and the first word that came to my mind was "shinner". Good finish nonetheless though. It'll be Ronnie Whelans goal of the season for sure.

[Leo No.8]

I actually don't think Crouch's scissor-kick in midweek came off his boot either.

 

I think it was struck with his lower shin / front of his ankle, but the execution was so good it went straight in anyway and no-one seemed to notice.

 

Both great goals regardless, but I'd agree both 'shinners'...

[Serko]

Shouldn't have been on the pitch

 

exactly how he only got yellow for kicking a player off the ball is incredible.

[Ostrich Man]

coyler is a shinner

[JohnnyH]

Repent for your shins.

[Guest efcrmagic]

Still haven't seen the Crouch or Van Persie one.

 

Greatest "shinner" of all time though, Gareth Farrelly against Coventry to keep us up, oh you crazy greased hair gypo, cult status for just that.

[Guest Cardie]

The way they went on about it I thought he'd volleyed a Van Basten-esque goal from 30/40 yards out.

 

It was a good goal it wasn't a great goal, one of those where the cross is so good with enough pace on it that you don't need to hit it with any great force and it flies.

[Des]

Was a good strike, if a bit lucky. Not as sweet as Riise's v Spurs though.

[Coyler]

The fact that he was giving it the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon levitation made it special. Volley from outside the box from a twenty-yard cross, shoulder-height?

 

It was animal.

[Cobs]

it was a feckin great goal